It calls a LLM and get its response
reason()
— and reasonStream()
— is one of the main building blocks of RΞASON. It allows you to call a LLM and gets its output:
reason()
you need to first set your OpenAI API Key.test
entrypoint in the RΞASON Playground will result in:
Output from `POST /test`
reason()
just calls the default LLM you defined in the .reason.config.js
file and returns the completion for you.
There’s also the streaming variant called reasonStream()
:
`reasonStream` response
reason
vs reasonStream
reason()
and reasonStream()
are the same function with the distiction being that one streams data from the LLM in real-time and the other only returns when the LLM has fully finished.
For instance:
reason()
and reasonStream()
interchangeably and everything talked here applies to both functions.
Although they only differ in one aspect, there are some important concepts to learn when working with reasonStream()
, we’ll go over in the next page.
reason()
and reasonStream()
functions seems nothing out of the ordinary. The real magic kicks in when we pass an interface
to it:
`reason()` with an interface
How does this work under-the-hood?
npm run dev
what you are actually running is npx reason dev
, which runs the RΞASON transpiler.The RΞASON transpiler — as the name suggests — transpile your code to a different representation.For instance, the previous examples gets transpiled to:City
interface gets converted to an object that is passed as a parameter to reason()
.The inspiration came from React: they created a new syntax (JSX) for writing “HTML” in .js
files that gets transpiled to normal JavaScript. The same is true with RΞASON — except we didn’t create a new syntax, we changed how interfaces
are used.reason<interface>()
or reasonStream<interface>()
will change its output as well.
If we add a new property called population
:
population
:
`reason()` with an interface
interface
.
ignore
behaviour, where RΞASON will not throw an error and continue as if everything was normal — read more here
interface
less complex;interfaces
to reasonStream()
interface
to reasonStream()
to have the object streamed:
`reasonStream` response
interface
to reason()
and we’ll go over them in a bit. First, we want to highlight that RΞASON has an ESLint plugin that really helps developers.
`reason()` with an interface
npx use-reason
, the only thing you should do is install the ESLint plugin for your IDE. Most developers already have it installed, but we recommend checking to make sure.
interface
rulesinterface
you pass to reason()
(or reasonStream()
) needs to follows some rules. Here they are:
interface
needs to be fully defined within the same file that calls reason()
;interface
cannot extend
another interface
/type
;interface
to reason()
, for instance reason<boolean>()
is invalid;interface
you pass cannot be empty. It needs to have at least one property;interface
cannot use utility types (Omit<>
, Partial<>
, etc);interface
can have:
any
, unknown
, void
, null
, never
, undefined
and this
;foo: 'bar'
;property1: "foo" | "bar" | 10
is valid but property1: string | number
is not;state
to be CA
instead of California
— TX
instead of Texas
, etc. Well, that’s easy: Just ask to the LLM!
`reason()` with an interface
/** Return the acronym only */
comment above the state
property. It worked because:
Description when you hover over `fs.readFileSync()`
fs.readFileSync()
definition:
The definition of `fs.readFileSync()`
/** comment */
;*
;/** {comment} */
:
//* I'm an invalid JSDoc comment :(
is an invalid JSDoc comment.reason()
and reasonStream()
their only use is above interface’s properties as property description for the LLM.
`reasonStream` response
Return the acronym only
when state
is hovered.
reason()
optionsreason()
and reasonStream()
to change their behaviour:
model
: which LLM model to use;max_tokens
: the maximum number of tokens the LLM can return;temperature
: set the temperature of the LLM;validation_strategy
: what should RΞASON do if the LLM outputs an object that does not conforms to the interface
you passed, possible values:
error
: the default value and it means that RΞASON will throw an error if the object is invalid;ignore
: RΞASON will ignore the invalid object.reason()
function — works.reasonStream()
that is able to stream from the LLM.reasonStream()
and reason()
are almost identical, their difference being that reasonStream()
streams data from the LLM. This makes reasonStream()
a bit different in its usage — since it is not a normal async function
that you can const result = await reasonStream()
.
Since a great LLM app almost always needs streaming, being able to use reasonStream()
is key to building a great LLM app. And that’s what we will go over in the next page.