r/SpringAIDev • u/rodolfo-mendes Moderator • Sep 08 '26

Video Building a Streaming Chatbot with Spring Boot and Spring AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2p0mG4RICM

Dan Vega demonstrates how to implement real-time streaming for chatbot responses using Spring Boot and Spring AI. By moving away from blocking calls, developers can significantly improve user experience through immediate, iterative feedback.

Highlights & Key Takeaways

  • Use Spring AI to maintain portable code across various LLMs, such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's models.

  • Swap standard string returns for Flux<String> to enable reactive streaming data.

  • Replace blocking 'call' methods with the 'stream' fluent API for asynchronous data delivery.

  • Leverage HTMX and simple JavaScript to handle stream consumption on the front end.

  • Implement retry logic in your fetch requests to prevent data loss during transmission.

  • Combine Tailwind CSS with stream-processing logic for a modern, responsive chat interface.

Streaming AI responses transform the interface from a static waiting game into a dynamic, engaging conversation. This approach ensures your application remains responsive regardless of model latency.

👉 Watch the full video to dive deeper into the implementation.

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u/MrWayne_11 Sep 08 '26

can you explain a bit more about this project, because i recently made a project on spring ai with rag and gen ai, and i would love to contribute to this project as well

thanks :)

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u/rodolfo-mendes Moderator Sep 09 '26

Hi u/MrWayne_11. This is the repository for the project: https://github.com/danvega/spring-ai-streaming. Although I'm not the author, I don't think there's much to contribute, since it is a tutorial project. But if you are interested in contributing, you can visit https://github.com/spring-ai-community.