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Generate Text
Generate Text
Generate text from prompts using AI. Simple interface with character counting and response rendering.
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Problems solved
Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.
- Generate complete text responses with generateText
- Call an AI Gateway model from a minimal API route
- Show non-streaming prompt-to-text results in the UI
Use cases
Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.
- Simple AI prompt boxes
- One-shot text completion tools
- AI SDK generateText onboarding demos
- Basic assistant reply prototypes
Setup
Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.
Getting started
Pick how you want to pull this pattern in. Then wire env vars and routes the same way.
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Download → Next.js app
Use Download → Next.js app in the preview toolbar. You get a zip scaffold (Pro downloads rewrite preview `/view/.../api/*` paths to `/api/*` automatically).
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Extract the zip and install dependencies
Unzip the archive, then run `pnpm install` (or npm / yarn) in the project folder.
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Fill .env.local
The download includes .env.local placeholders when needed. Add real values for: OPENAI_API_KEY.
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Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions in the generated project for your product.
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Run the app and open the pattern route
Run `pnpm dev`, open the setup/checklist page if present, then navigate to the generated pattern route and verify responses.
Environment variables
OPENAI_API_KEYGet key
Capabilities
AI SDK APIs
generateTextconvertToModelMessagesProviders
OpenAIPerplexity
Files added
4 filesapp/page.tsxapp/layout.tsxcomponents/basic-generate-text-form.tsxapp/api/generate-text/route.ts
Dependencies
8 totalnpm packages
4AISDKlucide-reactNext.jsReact
Registry components
input-groupseparatoremptyalert
Critical files
generate-text/route.tsAPI route demonstrating the AI SDK generateText function with gateway pattern. Shows the basic non-streaming text generation pattern with system prompt and JSON response.
Requirements
- Complexity
- Beginner
