Vercel

Vercel is a cloud platform for deploying and hosting web applications.

Electric and Vercel

Electric integrates with Vercel in two main ways:

1. Hosting — deploy Electric-powered applications on Vercel's platform
2. Durable Transport — use Durable Streams with the Vercel AI SDK

Durable Transport for AI

The Vercel AI SDK is a popular toolkit for building AI-powered applications. Electric's Durable Streams provide a Durable Transport layer that makes AI token streams resilient to network interruptions.

Why Durable Transport?

Standard AI streaming is fragile:

• Network interruptions lose partial responses
• Users must restart failed requests from scratch
• Mobile connections and poor WiFi cause frequent failures

Durable Transport solves this by:

• Persisting the token stream on the server
• Resuming from the last received position on reconnect
• Guaranteeing exactly-once delivery of tokens

Installation

npm install @electric-sql/durable-streams

Usage with Vercel AI SDK

import { streamText } from 'ai'
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai'
import { durableTransport } from '@electric-sql/durable-streams'

// Wrap your AI stream with Durable Transport
const result = await streamText({
  model: openai('gpt-4'),
  prompt: 'Write a story about a robot learning to paint.',
  experimental_transport: durableTransport({
    // Configure persistence and resumption
    streamId: 'user-session-123',
  }),
})

Learn more

• Durable Streams documentation
• Vercel AI SDK documentation
• Durable Streams GitHub

Deploying Electric on Vercel

You can deploy Electric-powered applications on Vercel. For the Electric sync service itself, you'll need a hosting platform that supports long-running processes.

See the Deployment guide for more details on hosting Electric.