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Showing Code Mode in the UI
Stream Code Mode events to the client so the UI shows each sandbox step. The user then sees the run before the final answer.
Code Mode sends custom events while it runs. Catch them with onCustomEvent in useChat, and show the code, each tool call, and the result in the chat.
Quick setup#
You need the Code Mode route from the Code Mode quick setup. Then replace your chat component with this one:
import { useState } from "react";
import { parsePartialJSON } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { useChat, fetchServerSentEvents } from "@tanstack/ai-react";
interface CodeModeEvent {
eventType: string;
data: unknown;
}
function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
return typeof value === "object" && value !== null;
}
export function CodeModeChat() {
const [input, setInput] = useState("");
const [events, setEvents] = useState<Record<string, Array<CodeModeEvent>>>(
{},
);
const { messages, sendMessage, isLoading } = useChat({
connection: fetchServerSentEvents("/api/chat"),
threadId: "support-chat",
// Keep each event under the execute_typescript call that sent it.
onCustomEvent: (eventType, data, { toolCallId }) => {
if (!toolCallId) return;
setEvents((prev) => ({
...prev,
[toolCallId]: [...(prev[toolCallId] ?? []), { eventType, data }],
}));
},
});
return (
<>
{messages.map((message) => (
<div key={message.id}>
{message.parts.map((part, index) => {
if (part.type === "text") {
return <p key={index}>{part.content}</p>;
}
if (
part.type === "tool-call" &&
part.name === "execute_typescript"
) {
return (
<CodeExecutionPanel
key={part.id}
args={part.arguments}
output={part.output}
events={events[part.id] ?? []}
/>
);
}
return null;
})}
</div>
))}
<form
onSubmit={(event) => {
event.preventDefault();
if (input.trim() === "") return;
sendMessage(input);
setInput("");
}}
>
<input value={input} onChange={(event) => setInput(event.target.value)} />
<button type="submit" disabled={isLoading}>
Send
</button>
</form>
</>
);
}
function CodeExecutionPanel({
args,
output,
events,
}: {
args: string;
output: unknown;
events: Array<CodeModeEvent>;
}) {
// The arguments stream in as partial JSON, so the code shows while the model writes it.
const parsed: unknown = parsePartialJSON(args);
const code =
isRecord(parsed) && typeof parsed.typescriptCode === "string"
? parsed.typescriptCode
: "";
return (
<div>
<details open>
<summary>TypeScript code</summary>
<pre>
<code>{code}</code>
</pre>
</details>
<ul>
{events.map((event, index) => (
<li key={index}>{describeEvent(event)}</li>
))}
</ul>
<pre>{describeResult(output)}</pre>
</div>
);
}
function describeEvent({ eventType, data }: CodeModeEvent): string {
if (!isRecord(data)) return eventType;
switch (eventType) {
case "code_mode:execution_started":
return "Started";
case "code_mode:console":
return `[${String(data.level)}] ${String(data.message)}`;
case "code_mode:external_call":
return `Call ${String(data.function)}(${JSON.stringify(data.args)})`;
case "code_mode:external_result":
return `Done ${String(data.function)} in ${String(data.duration)} ms`;
case "code_mode:external_error":
return `Failed ${String(data.function)}: ${String(data.error)}`;
case "code_mode:execution_finished":
return `Finished in ${String(data.durationMs)} ms`;
default:
return eventType;
}
}
function describeResult(output: unknown): string {
if (output === undefined) return "Running...";
if (!isRecord(output)) return JSON.stringify(output, null, 2);
if (output.success === false) {
const message = isRecord(output.error) ? output.error.message : undefined;
return `Error: ${String(message ?? "unknown error")}`;
}
return JSON.stringify(output.result, null, 2);
}Send "Compare the weather in Tokyo, Paris, and New York City." The chat now shows the code that the model wrote, one line for each external_fetchWeather call, and the final result.
How it works#
- Code Mode sends custom events through the chat stream, next to the normal text and tool-call chunks.
- onCustomEvent gets three arguments: the event type, the payload, and a context with the toolCallId.
- The toolCallId is the id of the execute_typescript tool-call part. Use it to show each event under the right call.
- When the execution ends, part.output holds the result: success, result, logs, and error.
For the full list of events and their payloads, see Custom events.
Other frameworks#
onCustomEvent comes from ChatClient in @tanstack/ai-client, which every framework package uses. Pass it in the same way:
- React, Preact, Solid, Vue: useChat({ onCustomEvent }).
- Svelte: createChat({ onCustomEvent }).
- Angular: injectChat({ onCustomEvent }).
The callback has the same signature everywhere:
(eventType: string, data: unknown, context: { toolCallId?: string }) => void