Build AI-Enhanced Web Apps

Build smarter web apps with generative AI

Build AI-Enhanced Web Apps is a hands-on Manning guide for web developers who want to add practical AI features to React and projects. Rather than treating AI as a mystery box, it shows how to work with the tools and patterns that fit naturally into a modern JavaScript workflow: the Vercel AI SDK,, streaming responses, conversation state, structured output, tool calling, and more.

The focus stays squarely on real application work. You’ll see how generative AI fits into the wider architecture of a web app, how to connect models to user-facing interfaces, and how to think about deployment, testing, and security when AI becomes part of the product experience.

What the book covers

• Building generative AI web apps with React and
• Connecting UI components to AI providers through the Vercel AI SDK
• Managing chat history, context, and streaming interactions
• Using for workflows, document summarization, and RAG
• Working through guided projects such as an AI interview assistant and an AI RAG agent
• Exploring deployment, security, and the Model Context Protocol

Designed for JavaScript developers

This book is aimed at frontend and full-stack developers who already feel comfortable in the JavaScript ecosystem and want a practical route into AI-enhanced products. The emphasis on examples and implementation makes it especially useful for readers who want to build rather than merely read about generative AI.

A practical path into production-minded AI features

If you are looking for a structured, code-first introduction to building AI-powered web applications with familiar tools, this title offers a clear and focused starting point. It is especially well matched to readers building apps where responsiveness, UX, and maintainability matter as much as model output.