Llama API TypeScript
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-api-typescript- Category
- AI Tools
- Rank
- No. 1007Tools index
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Type
- TOOL
- Builder
- meta-llama
- GitHub
- 38 stars
- Latest release
- v0.3.0
- Date
About
Official TypeScript library for the Llama API.
What it does
It wraps Llama REST endpoints in a server-side JavaScript and TypeScript client. Applications can send chat requests, consume server-sent event streams, upload files, inspect raw responses, and handle typed errors without building the HTTP layer themselves.
Why it's ranked here
This is a strong direct client for teams committed to the Llama API. Typed request and response fields, configurable retries and timeouts, streaming support, uploads, and raw response access cover both routine calls and lower-level integration work.
What's good
The client provides editor-visible documentation and types across request parameters and response fields. Streaming supports cancellation and splitting. Uploads accept browser files, fetch responses, Node streams, buffers, and byte arrays. Specific error classes make authentication, rate limits, timeouts, and server failures easier to distinguish.
Tradeoffs
The library is generated from an API specification, so its shape follows that specification rather than a hand-designed abstraction. Types do not validate requests at runtime. Default retries can extend waits beyond the configured timeout. Debug logging can expose sensitive request or response body data.
How to use it well
Use it in server-side TypeScript or JavaScript services that call Llama directly and benefit from typed contracts, streaming, uploads, and structured errors. Set explicit timeout and retry policies, keep debug logs away from sensitive data, and add runtime validation separately when external input reaches requests.
Technical notes+
package.json defines a public MIT-licensed npm package with CommonJS as its package type, separate CommonJS and ESM export targets, and no runtime dependencies. src/index.ts exports the default LlamaAPIClient, ClientOptions, APIPromise, upload helpers, and error classes. src/client.ts reads API credentials and configuration from options or environment variables, uses bearer authentication, defaults to the Llama v1 base URL, and exposes generic HTTP verbs for undocumented endpoints. src/core/streaming.ts implements SSE parsing, cancellation, stream splitting, and conversion to newline-separated ReadableStream data. src/core/error.ts maps HTTP statuses to specific error subclasses.
Observed
- License
- MIT
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Installation
- Published publicly on npm as llama-api-client
- Interface
- Server-side JavaScript and TypeScript library for a REST API
- Module packaging
- Provides CommonJS and ESM export targets
- Runtime dependencies
- No runtime dependencies declared
- Streaming
- Supports Server Sent Events through async iteration
- Generation
- Source states that the client is generated from an OpenAPI specification by Stainless
Read from README.md, package.json, src/index.ts, src/error.ts, src/client.ts, src/uploads.ts, src/version.ts, src/resource.ts, src/resources.ts, src/streaming.ts, src/api-promise.ts, src/core/error.ts, src/core/uploads.ts, src/core/resource.ts, src/core/streaming.ts.
What it can do
Generate text completions
Text prompts and parameters → AI-generated text responses
Create chat conversations
Message history and user messages → Conversational AI responses
Execute function calls
Function definitions and prompts → Structured function call results
Stream real-time responses
API requests with streaming enabled → Incremental text chunks as they are generated
Configure model parameters
Temperature, max tokens, and other settings → Customized API behavior and response characteristics
Handle API authentication
API keys and credentials → Authenticated connection to Llama API services
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