ai-hooks – tiny useful AI tools for react
Hi! My name is David and I wanted to show you a react (and solidjs) library I've built over the last months. The intention behind it is, that there are some actually useful use cases for AI on the frontend that are largely unexploited still. LLMs are particularly good at extracting structured information from unstructured text and thats really useful for any types of forms - which can be multimodal. Setting up server side logic for AI usage can take time. Streaming data to the frontend and parsing it there to make it usable can be frustrating. Imho thats one of the reasons why people…
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Hi! My name is David and I wanted to show you a react (and solidjs) library I've built over the last months. The intention behind it is, that there are some actually useful use cases for AI on the frontend that are largely unexploited still. LLMs are particularly good at extracting structured information from unstructured text and thats really useful for any types of forms - which can be multimodal. Setting up server side logic for AI usage can take time. Streaming data to the frontend and parsing it there to make it usable can be frustrating. Imho thats one of the reasons why people hesitate to integrate. Thats exactly where ai-hooks steps in. All server side stuff is handled by us, all you need to do is run `npm install @ai-hooks/client-react` and get going. Lots of functionality is free and available without registration (and will stay so). Since inference is not free for me (although very cheap for many of the use cases) and I would love to shift my focus more on this product there is a paid plan that allows you to access all the functionality and that supports me in working on the product. The client libraries are open source. Currently the server side is closed source but there will be a community version of the server that will allow you to run your own instance and be completely independent. I'd be super happy for some feedback.
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