Streaming AI in Laravel without fighting Livewire

Short summary

A practical architecture for shipping production-ready AI streaming chat UIs in Laravel with Livewire. The core insight is treating streaming as a state-management problem first: split durable chat state (database) from transient stream state (browser) and provider transport (service class). Covers message lifecycle states (queued, streaming, completed, cancelled, failed), scroll behavior, optimistic UI, and failure recovery.

• •Streaming is a state-management problem first, rendering second
• •Split durable DB state from transient browser buffer and provider transport
• •Explicit message lifecycle states enable proper cancellation, retry, and failure handling

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