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title: "Vercel AI SDK image generator"
sidebarTitle: "Vercel AI SDK image generator"
description: "This example Next.js project uses the Vercel AI SDK to generate images from a prompt."
---

import RealtimeLearnMore from "/snippets/realtime-learn-more.mdx";

## Overview

This demo is a full stack example that uses the following:

- A [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) app using [shadcn](https://ui.shadcn.com/) for the UI
- Our 'useRealtimeRun' [React hook](/realtime/react-hooks/subscribe#userealtimerun) to subscribe to the run and show updates on the frontend
- The [Vercel AI SDK](https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/introduction) to [generate images](https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/ai-sdk-core/image-generation) using OpenAI's DALL-E models

## GitHub repo

<Card
  title="View the Vercel AI SDK image generator repo"
  icon="GitHub"
  href="https://github.com/triggerdotdev/examples/tree/main/vercel-ai-sdk-image-generator"
>
  Click here to view the full code for this project in our examples repository on GitHub. You can
  fork it and use it as a starting point for your own project.
</Card>

## Video

<video
  controls
  className="w-full aspect-video"
  src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/960edcb6-e225-4983-a48c-6fa697295dec"
></video>

## Relevant code

- View the Trigger.dev task code which generates the image using the Vercel AI SDK in [src/trigger/realtime-generate-image.ts](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/examples/tree/main/vercel-ai-sdk-image-generator/src/trigger/realtime-generate-image.ts).
- We use a [useRealtimeRun](/realtime/react-hooks/subscribe#userealtimerun) hook to subscribe to the run in [src/app/processing/[id]/ProcessingContent.tsx](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/examples/tree/main/vercel-ai-sdk-image-generator/src/app/processing/[id]/ProcessingContent.tsx).

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