PatternsSDK API

Generate Text

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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.

  1. 1

    Install from the preview toolbar

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    Copy the install command above and run it in your project — Pro patterns include a short-lived token.

  2. 2

    Add environment variables to .env.local

    OPENAI_API_KEY

  3. 3

    Point client fetches at your API routes

    Replace preview `/view/.../api/...` paths with `/api/...` in the installed files.

  4. 4

    Customize the agent and tool files

    Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions for your product — Copy for AI in the toolbar helps seed that work.

  5. 5

    Run your dev server and open the pattern route

    Install dependencies if needed, then start the app and verify responses.

Environment variables

Capabilities

AI SDK APIs

generateTextconvertToModelMessages

Providers

OpenAIPerplexity

Files added

4 files
  • app/page.tsx
  • app/layout.tsx
  • components/basic-generate-text-form.tsx
  • app/api/generate-text/route.ts

Dependencies

8 total

npm packages

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AISDKlucide-reactNext.jsReact

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Critical files

  • generate-text/route.ts

    API 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