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Summary

Generative AI interfaces can be enhanced by using streaming endpoints provided by large language model (LLM) APIs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which allow for real-time updates to the user interface, improving user experience by reducing perceived wait times. The blog post explains how to leverage JavaScript's fetch function to implement streaming responses in a front-end application, using an example Express application that streams text to demonstrate this method. It details the process of setting up a streaming pipeline, decoding incoming data with a TextDecoderStream, and writing it to the page with a custom WritableStream. Additionally, the post discusses handling server-sent events for streaming data, utilizing the eventsource-parser module to parse responses from POST requests, and emphasizes the importance of understanding these techniques to improve application performance when dealing with LLMs. It also provides insights into using Vercel's AI SDK and Langflow for streaming responses and mentions the limitations of certain methods with specific browsers like Safari. The implementation aims to facilitate quicker user interaction by allowing them to read streamed data incrementally, thus enhancing the overall responsiveness of applications using LLMs.