"Tokenization: Turning Text into Secret Pieces 🧩"

What is Tokenization?

Tokenization means breaking down text into smaller pieces called tokens.
Think of tokens like the little building blocks or puzzle pieces of words or characters.

Imagine This:

You have a sentence:
"Hello, how are you?"

When you tokenize it, you split it into parts, like:
["Hello", ",", "how", "are", "you", "?"]

Each of these parts is a token.

Why tokenize?

• Computers don’t understand whole sentences naturally.

• They understand numbers better.

• Tokenization turns your text into numbers (tokens) that the computer can work with.

  How your code tokenizes:

  1. You type some text in the textarea (for example: "Hello world!").

  2. When you click "Tokenize & Decode", this happens inside your code:

     const tokenized = enc.encode(inputText);

     The enc.encode() function splits your text into tokens (numbers).

  3. Each token is a small piece representing part of your text.

  4. These tokens look like numbers, for example: [15496, 995] (these numbers correspond to “Hello” and “world”).

3. You then see these tokens displayed in your app.

4. Then the app uses:
   const decodedText = enc.decode(tokenized);
   This turns the tokens back into the original text.

5. It’s like putting the puzzle pieces back together.

   Summary:

   • Tokenization breaks text into tokens (small pieces).

   • Tokens are numbers that computers can understand.

   • Your app shows these tokens and lets you see the decoded original text again.