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Building AI-Powered React Components with Vercel AI SDK Featured Post Video Post

Complete guide to integrating AI capabilities into React applications using Vercel's AI SDK. Build chatbots, content generators, and smart UI components with streaming responses

Building AI-Powered React Components with Vercel AI SDK
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The Vercel AI SDK makes it incredibly easy to add AI capabilities to React applications. In this tutorial, we'll build several AI-powered components from scratch, including a streaming chatbot and intelligent content generator.

Getting Started

First, install the necessary packages:

npm install ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/anthropic
npm install @types/react @types/node # if using TypeScript

Set up your environment variables:

# .env.local
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_key

Basic Chat Component

Let's start with a simple chat interface that streams responses:

// components/ChatBot.jsx
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Vercel Announces Edge Runtime for Database Queries

Vercel's new Edge Runtime now supports direct database connections, eliminating cold starts and reducing latency for serverless applications by up to 80%

Vercel Announces Edge Runtime for Database Queries

Vercel has launched Edge Runtime for Database Queries, a groundbreaking feature that brings database connections directly to the edge, eliminating the traditional serverless cold start problem.

The Problem with Traditional Serverless

Serverless functions have always struggled with database connections:

  • Cold start penalties of 2-5 seconds
  • Connection pooling complexity
  • Geographic latency issues
  • Timeout limitations for long queries

How Edge Runtime Changes Everything

The new system runs database queries at Vercel's edge locations, closer to users worldwide:

Global Distribution

Database queries now execute from 14 edge regions instead of centralized data centers.

Persistent Connections

Edge Runtime maintains warm database connections, eliminating cold

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