Overview

Streaming Markdown from LLMs creates unique rendering challenges: incomplete code fences, partial tables, and unterminated blocks can all break a naive renderer. vue3-streamdown handles all of this gracefully — the same battle-tested approach as Vercel's streamdown, now for the Vue ecosystem.

Works with any AI streaming API: Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic, or raw SSE streams.

Features

• ⚡ Streaming-optimized — gracefully handles partial/incomplete Markdown from LLMs
• 🎨 Syntax highlighting — beautiful code blocks via Shiki
• 📊 GitHub Flavored Markdown — tables, task lists, strikethrough
• 📈 Mermaid diagrams — render flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more
• 🔢 Math rendering — LaTeX equations via KaTeX
• 🌐 CJK support — proper word-wrapping for Chinese/Japanese/Korean
• 🛡️ Security-first — built-in HTML sanitization via rehype-sanitize + rehype-harden
• 🎯 Animated cursor — blinking block/circle caret during streaming
• 🔗 Link safety — external link confirmation modal
• 🌙 Dark mode — class-based dark mode (.dark), compatible with shadcn/ui
• 💪 Fully typed — complete TypeScript support with Composition API

Preview

Streaming with animated caret

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                     │
│  Here is a Fibonacci sequence in Python:            │
│                                                     │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │ python                          [⎘] [↓]     │   │
│  │ 1  def fib(n):                              │   │
│  │ 2      if n <= 1:                           │   │
│  │ 3          return n                         │   │
│  │ 4      return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) ▋        │   │
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘   │
│                                                     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Table with copy/download controls

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Framework   │  Stars  │  License          [⎘] [↓] [⛶]  │
│──────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────  │
│  Vue 3       │  48k    │  MIT                            │
│  React       │  226k   │  MIT                            │
│  Svelte      │  80k    │  MIT                            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Mermaid diagram rendering

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  mermaid                           [↓▾] [⎘] [⛶] [🔍±]    │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │         Client ──► API Server ──► Database           │  │
│  │            ▲                          │              │  │
│  │            └──────────────────────────┘              │  │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Installation

npm install vue3-streamdown
# or
pnpm add vue3-streamdown
# or
yarn add vue3-streamdown

Styles are automatically injected when the library is imported — no additional CSS import or Tailwind setup required.

If you prefer to manage styles manually (e.g. for SSR or CSP reasons), you can import the pre-compiled CSS directly instead:

import "vue3-streamdown/style.css";

CSS Custom Properties (shadcn/ui design tokens)

Components use shadcn/ui CSS variables for theming. If you already use shadcn/ui these are set automatically. Otherwise, add the following minimal set to your global CSS:

:root {
  --background: oklch(1 0 0);
  --foreground: oklch(0.145 0 0);
  --muted: oklch(0.97 0 0);
  --muted-foreground: oklch(0.556 0 0);
  --border: oklch(0.922 0 0);
  --primary: oklch(0.205 0 0);
  --primary-foreground: oklch(0.985 0 0);
  --sidebar: oklch(0.985 0 0);
  --radius: 0.625rem;
}

.dark {
  --background: oklch(0.145 0 0);
  --foreground: oklch(0.985 0 0);
  --muted: oklch(0.269 0 0);
  --muted-foreground: oklch(0.708 0 0);
  --border: oklch(0.269 0 0);
  --primary: oklch(0.985 0 0);
  --primary-foreground: oklch(0.205 0 0);
  --sidebar: oklch(0.205 0 0);
  --radius: 0.625rem;
}

Dark mode

vue3-streamdown uses class-based dark mode: dark styles are applied when a .dark class is present on any ancestor element (typically <html>). This matches shadcn/ui's default behavior.

// Toggle dark mode
document.documentElement.classList.toggle("dark");

Dark mode does not follow the OS prefers-color-scheme media query automatically. If you want OS-based toggling, add/remove the .dark class based on window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)') yourself.

Usage

Basic usage

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";
</script>

<template>
  <Streamdown :model-value="markdownText" />
</template>

Note: Unlike the React version, content is passed via the model-value prop — not as slot content.

Streaming with Vercel AI SDK

<script setup lang="ts">
import { useChat } from "@ai-sdk/vue";
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";

const { messages, status } = useChat();
</script>

<template>
  <div v-for="message in messages" :key="message.id">
    <template v-for="part in message.parts" :key="part.type">
      <Streamdown
        v-if="part.type === 'text'"
        :model-value="part.text"
        :is-animating="status === 'streaming'"
        animated
        caret="block"
      />
    </template>
  </div>
</template>

Streaming with raw fetch / SSE

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from "vue";
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";

const content = ref("");
const isStreaming = ref(false);

async function chat(prompt: string) {
  isStreaming.value = true;
  content.value = "";

  const response = await fetch("/api/chat", {
    method: "POST",
    body: JSON.stringify({ prompt }),
  });

  const reader = response.body!.getReader();
  const decoder = new TextDecoder();

  while (true) {
    const { done, value } = await reader.read();
    if (done) break;
    content.value += decoder.decode(value);
  }

  isStreaming.value = false;
}
</script>

<template>
  <button @click="chat('Explain quicksort with code')">Ask AI</button>

  <Streamdown
    :model-value="content"
    :is-animating="isStreaming"
    mode="streaming"
    caret="block"
    animated
  />
</template>

With syntax highlighting (Shiki)

Install the code plugin:

npm install @streamdown/code

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";
import { createCodePlugin } from "@streamdown/code";

const codePlugin = createCodePlugin();
</script>

<template>
  <Streamdown :model-value="markdown" :plugins="{ code: codePlugin }" />
</template>

With Mermaid diagrams

Install the mermaid plugin:

npm install @streamdown/mermaid

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";
import { createMermaidPlugin } from "@streamdown/mermaid";

const mermaidPlugin = createMermaidPlugin();
</script>

<template>
  <Streamdown :model-value="markdown" :plugins="{ mermaid: mermaidPlugin }" />
</template>

With math (KaTeX)

Install the math plugin and KaTeX CSS:

npm install @streamdown/math katex

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";
import { createMathPlugin } from "@streamdown/math";
import "katex/dist/katex.min.css";

const mathPlugin = createMathPlugin();
</script>

<template>
  <Streamdown :model-value="markdown" :plugins="{ math: mathPlugin }" />
</template>

All plugins together

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Streamdown } from "vue3-streamdown";
import { createCodePlugin } from "@streamdown/code";
import { createMermaidPlugin } from "@streamdown/mermaid";
import { createMathPlugin } from "@streamdown/math";
import "katex/dist/katex.min.css";

const plugins = {
  code: createCodePlugin(),
  mermaid: createMermaidPlugin(),
  math: createMathPlugin(),
};
</script>

<template>
  <Streamdown
    :model-value="content"
    :is-animating="isStreaming"
    :plugins="plugins"
    mode="streaming"
    caret="block"
    animated
  />
</template>

Custom translations (i18n)

<template>
  <Streamdown
    :model-value="markdown"
    :translations="{
      copyCode: '코드 복사',
      copied: '복사됨',
      viewFullscreen: '전체 화면',
      exitFullscreen: '닫기',
      downloadFile: '파일 다운로드',
    }"
  />
</template>

Tailwind CSS prefix support

<template>
  <!-- All internal Tailwind classes will be prefixed: tw:flex, tw:text-sm, etc. -->
  <Streamdown :model-value="markdown" prefix="tw" />
</template>

Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description | | ---------------------------- | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | model-value | string | "" | Markdown content to render | | mode | "streaming" \| "static" | "streaming" | Rendering mode | | is-animating | boolean | false | Whether the stream is active | | animated | boolean \| AnimateOptions | — | Enable token-by-token animation | | caret | "block" \| "circle" | — | Blinking cursor style during streaming | | controls | boolean \| ControlsConfig | true | Show code/table/mermaid action buttons | | line-numbers | boolean | true | Show line numbers in code blocks | | shiki-theme | [ThemeInput, ThemeInput] | ["github-light", "github-dark"] | Shiki [lightTheme, darkTheme] — first theme for light mode, second for dark mode (.dark class) | | plugins | PluginConfig | — | code / mermaid / math / cjk plugins | | remark-plugins | Pluggable[] | — | Custom remark plugins | | rehype-plugins | Pluggable[] | — | Custom rehype plugins | | components | Components | — | Override hast → Vue component map | | translations | Partial<StreamdownTranslations> | — | Override UI strings | | icons | Partial<IconMap> | — | Override toolbar icons | | prefix | string | — | Tailwind CSS class prefix | | link-safety | LinkSafetyConfig | { enabled: true } | External link confirmation | | mermaid | MermaidOptions | — | Mermaid global config | | dir | "auto" \| "ltr" \| "rtl" | — | Text direction (auto = per-block detection) | | parse-incomplete-markdown | boolean | true | Use remend for streaming-safe parsing | | normalize-html-indentation | boolean | false | Prevent indented HTML being treated as code | | allowed-tags | Record<string, string[]> | — | Custom HTML tags to allow through sanitization | | literal-tag-content | string[] | — | Tags whose children are treated as plain text | | remend | RemendOptions | — | Options passed to remend | | on-animation-start | () => void | — | Called when streaming starts | | on-animation-end | () => void | — | Called when streaming ends |

Composables (for custom child components)

If you build custom components that need to access the streamdown context:

import {
  useStreamdownContext, // shikiTheme, controls, isAnimating, etc.
  useTranslations, // UI strings
  useIcons, // toolbar icons
  useCn, // prefix-aware cn()
  usePlugins, // full plugin config
  useCodePlugin, // code plugin
  useMermaidPlugin, // mermaid plugin
  useIsBlockIncomplete, // whether current block is mid-stream
  useIsBlockCode, // whether <code> is inside a <pre>
  useCodeBlock, // { code: ComputedRef<string> } for copy/download
  useAnimate, // animate plugin instance
} from "vue3-streamdown";

Comparison with streamdown (React)

| Feature | streamdown (React) | vue3-streamdown (Vue 3) | | --------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------- | | Streaming-safe parsing | ✅ | ✅ | | Syntax highlighting (Shiki) | ✅ | ✅ | | Mermaid diagrams | ✅ | ✅ | | Math (KaTeX) | ✅ | ✅ | | CJK support | ✅ | ✅ | | Animated cursor | ✅ | ✅ | | Link safety modal | ✅ | ✅ | | Dark mode | ✅ | ✅ | | Tailwind prefix | ✅ | ✅ | | TypeScript | ✅ | ✅ | | Composition API / hooks | React hooks | Vue composables | | SSR | ✅ (Next.js) | ✅ (Nuxt) |

License

Apache-2.0 — based on streamdown by Vercel.