My go-to stack for building AI web apps with Next.js

I've been meaning to share this for a while: how I structure AI-powered web apps on Next.js, especially when you want streaming, edge rendering, and a solid DX.

The short version of my approach is keep the AI calls behind a clean API layer, stream the responses, and don't over-engineer state management on the client. The blog post covers the full tutorial if anyone wants the details.

Open to questions — happy to help anyone who's stuck on the streaming or the deployment side. That part bit me more than once.

I wrote this up in more detail in the full blog post — Building AI-Powered Web Apps with Next.js and OpenAI — with the deeper context, data, and code. Give it a read if you're curious.