Let's Build A Strapi Plugin To Integrate Vercel’s AI SDK In Our Next.js 16 Project

In a comprehensive tutorial, Paul Bratslavsky outlines the process of building a custom plugin for Strapi, a headless CMS framework, to integrate Vercel's AI SDK into a Next.js 16 project. The guide details how to centralize AI logic in the backend to maintain security and standardize workflows, providing clean and reusable endpoints for the frontend. The tutorial covers creating a Strapi plugin with modular architecture, setting up non-streaming and streaming AI responses using Server-Sent Events (SSE), and implementing a full conversational interface with message history. It also includes steps to build both backend and frontend components, integrate the AI SDK, and test the implementation with curl and a custom frontend using React hooks. By the end, the tutorial showcases the creation of an extensible AI layer within the architecture and encourages developers to experiment and expand on the basic functionalities demonstrated.