# Streaming reply with a pending state

> One assistant row moving from thinking, to typing, to settled.

A shadcn/ui block from the [@reui](https://reui.io) registry, listed on [shadcn.exchange](https://shadcn.exchange/r/reui/c-message-7).

- Page, with a live preview: https://shadcn.exchange/r/reui/c-message-7
- Screenshot: https://abzjhwgwpdpz7ua5.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/shots/reui/c-message-7-light-fc29258466fcd4d2.png
- Registry item: https://reui.io/r/new-york-v4/c-message-7.json
- Listed: 2026-10-13, source last changed 2026-10-13

## Install

```bash
npx shadcn@latest add https://reui.io/r/new-york-v4/c-message-7.json
```

Run it in a project that has shadcn/ui set up. It adds the files below and installs what they depend on.

## Dependencies

- Registry items: `bubble`, `button`, `marker`, `message`, `spinner`

## Files

### `c-message-7.tsx`

```tsx
"use client"

import { useEffect, useState } from "react"

import { Bubble, BubbleContent } from "@/components/ui/bubble"
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Marker,
  MarkerContent,
  MarkerIcon,
} from "@/components/ui/marker"
import {
  Message,
  MessageContent,
  MessageFooter,
} from "@/components/ui/message"
import { Spinner } from "@/components/ui/spinner"

const ANSWER =
  "The tax service began retrying every confirm call at 14:05, twice at 400ms each, so p95 on POST /api/checkout/confirm went from 240ms to 3.1s. The database was never the bottleneck: connection wait stayed under 5ms for the whole window. Rolling the tax client back to 1.8.3 at 14:41 returned p95 to 260ms within two minutes."

const PENDING_MS = 900
const STEP_MS = 24
const STEP_CHARS = 4

/*
 * Announcing every chunk turns the reply into a stutter, so one live region
 * carries the two states worth interrupting for. It is a permanent child, not
 * swapped in with its text: a region inserted with its content is not read.
 */
export function Pattern() {
  const [revealed, setRevealed] = useState(0)

  useEffect(() => {
    if (revealed >= ANSWER.length) return
    /*
     * Reduced motion gets the whole answer, not a faster crawl. Someone who
     * asked for less movement wants the text, not the same effect rushed.
     */
    if (window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches) {
      setRevealed(ANSWER.length)
      return
    }
    const id = window.setTimeout(
      () => setRevealed((count) => Math.min(count + STEP_CHARS, ANSWER.length)),
      revealed === 0 ? PENDING_MS : STEP_MS
    )
    return () => window.clearTimeout(id)
  }, [revealed])

  const done = revealed >= ANSWER.length

  return (
    <div className="mx-auto flex w-full max-w-2xl flex-col gap-6">
      <Message align="end">
        <MessageContent>
          <Bubble variant="muted">
            <BubbleContent>
              Why did eu-west checkout latency spike at 14:05?
            </BubbleContent>
          </Bubble>
        </MessageContent>
      </Message>

      <Message>
        <MessageContent>
          <span role="status" className="sr-only">
            {done ? "Reply ready" : revealed === 0 ? "Generating reply" : ""}
          </span>
          {/*
            The bubble is mounted in both states rather than swapped out, so
            aria-busy covers the wait and the footer keeps its ghost padding.
          */}
          <Bubble variant="ghost" aria-busy={!done}>
            <BubbleContent>
              {revealed === 0 ? (
                <Marker>
                  <MarkerIcon>
                    <Spinner />
                  </MarkerIcon>
                  <MarkerContent>
                    <span className="animate-pulse motion-reduce:animate-none">
                      Reading the 14:00 to 14:10 trace...
                    </span>
                  </MarkerContent>
                </Marker>
              ) : (
                <p className="whitespace-pre-wrap">
                  {ANSWER.slice(0, revealed)}
                  {done ? null : (
                    <span
                      aria-hidden="true"
                      className="bg-foreground ms-0.5 inline-block h-[1em] w-0.5 translate-y-0.5"
                    />
                  )}
                </p>
              )}
            </BubbleContent>
          </Bubble>
          {/*
            The footer stays mounted so Replay survives its own click. A button
            that unmounts the moment it is activated drops focus to the body.
          */}
          <MessageFooter className="gap-2">
            <span className="tabular-nums">14:45</span>
            <Button
              type="button"
              variant="ghost"
              size="xs"
              onClick={() => setRevealed(0)}
            >
              Replay
            </Button>
          </MessageFooter>
        </MessageContent>
      </Message>
    </div>
  )
}
```