@assistant-ui/vue

Vue bindings for assistant-ui. A provider, composables, and unstyled primitives for streaming AI chat in Vue and Nuxt, running the same runtime as @assistant-ui/react.

Installation

Requires Vue 3.5 or newer.

npm install @assistant-ui/vue @assistant-ui/ai-sdk ai react

@assistant-ui/ai-sdk connects the AI SDK. It runs the AI SDK's chat state on the shared runtime, so it needs react installed even though React renders nothing.

Usage

<!-- app/components/Assistant.client.vue -->
<script setup lang="ts">
import {
  AuiConfig,
  AuiProvider,
  ComposerPrimitiveInput,
  ComposerPrimitiveSend,
  MessagePrimitiveParts,
  ThreadPrimitiveMessages,
  ThreadPrimitiveViewport,
} from "@assistant-ui/vue";
import { AISDKChat } from "@assistant-ui/ai-sdk";

const config = AuiConfig({ threads: AISDKChat() });
</script>

<template>
  <AuiProvider :config="config">
    <ThreadPrimitiveViewport class="h-dvh overflow-y-auto">
      <ThreadPrimitiveMessages>
        <MessagePrimitiveParts />
      </ThreadPrimitiveMessages>
    </ThreadPrimitiveViewport>
    <ComposerPrimitiveInput placeholder="Message..." />
    <ComposerPrimitiveSend>Send</ComposerPrimitiveSend>
  </AuiProvider>
</template>

AISDKChat() posts to /api/chat, a route that returns streamText(...).toUIMessageStreamResponse(). Mount the provider client-only, as a .client.vue component in Nuxt: Vue's server renderer never disposes effect scopes, so a provider rendered on the server would keep one runtime per request.

Styled components (thread, messages, reasoning, tool calls, thread list) install from the assistant-ui registry; the quickstart walks through them.

API

• AuiProvider owns an assistant client built from an AuiConfig; AuiIf renders its slot while a state selector returns true.
• useAui() returns a stable client whose scope accessors resolve to the provider's current client. useAuiState(selector) returns a computed ref that updates when the selected slice changes. useAuiEvent(event, callback) subscribes for the lifetime of the current effect scope.
• Primitives cover threads (ThreadPrimitiveRoot, Messages, Viewport, ViewportFooter, ScrollToBottom, Suggestions), messages (MessagePrimitiveRoot, Parts, Attachments), composers (ComposerPrimitiveInput, Send, Cancel, Attachments, AddAttachment, AttachmentDropzone), attachments, branch pickers, action bars, suggestions, errors, chain of thought, and thread lists, each exported under its full name such as ThreadPrimitiveMessages.
• Tool calls render through Vue components registered with Tools({ toolkit }) or aui.tools.setToolUI, which receive a single tool prop typed ToolUIProps; a React renderer from a toolkit shared with a React app does not render in Vue.

Without the AI SDK

To run a runtime that does not need React, such as one mounted with RuntimeAdapter from @assistant-ui/core/store, alias react to @assistant-ui/tap/standalone-shim so the shared runtime code resolves without React installed:

// vite.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      "react/compiler-runtime": "@assistant-ui/tap/standalone-shim/compiler-runtime",
      react: "@assistant-ui/tap/standalone-shim",
    },
  },
});

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Quickstart
• Runtimes
• Server rendering
• Tool UI

For other platforms

• Web with React: @assistant-ui/react
• React Native: @assistant-ui/react-native
• Terminal: @assistant-ui/react-ink