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hextaui-ai-conversation

chatminimal-flat

A client-side React conversation viewer distributed as a shadcn registry item. It renders user and assistant messages, thinking and streaming states, an empty state, auto-scroll, and keyboard navigation. It relies on local shadcn utilities and Button, sibling AI message components, Tailwind theme tokens, and markdown, highlighting, theme, Radix, and variant packages.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of hextaui-ai-conversation at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-ai-conversation at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-ai-conversation at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for hextaui-ai-conversation
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal1940.2 KB (2005.6 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 58.55s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/blocks/ai/ai-conversation.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A solid transcript shell with useful keyboard behavior and clean extension callbacks, and it passed the integrated build and runtime checks. It is not portable as-is: the bare mount fails because it needs a shadcn-style setup, including local aliases, utilities, themed primitives, and sibling registry components. Best for established shadcn apps that accept the heavy rendering stack.

Use it if

  • You already manage chat state and need an accessible transcript view with streaming and thinking indicators.
  • Your app uses shadcn conventions and can install the linked AI message, AI thinking, and Button registry pieces.
  • You need callbacks for regenerate, edit, and starting a new conversation while keeping message transport outside the component.

Skip it if

  • You need a complete chat surface with a composer, model transport, persistence, or authentication included.
  • Bundle weight is tightly constrained, since the markdown and syntax-highlighting stack adds substantial client payload.
  • Your design system does not use Tailwind theme tokens or shadcn-style aliases and you do not want to adapt the source.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-ai-conversation
Declared dependenciesreact-markdown, remark-gfm, shiki, next-themes, @radix-ui/react-slot, @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu, class-variance-authority
Missing on installreact-markdown, remark-gfm
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Tailwind and the expected theme tokens, configure the local path alias, provide a cn utility, and port the Button, AIMessage, and AIThinking components. Install the markdown, GFM, syntax-highlighting, theme, icon, Radix slot and menu, and class-variant dependencies, then keep the component on the client.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Author repository

github.com/preetsuthar17/HextaUI
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-14

Alternatives

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