Snowflake Means Business: Integrating Cortex AI Models in React with Hono

Kaarthikandavar
5 min readApr 23, 2024

Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake’s big bet on AI, offers a suite of LLM models and functions that can be integrated into applications to unlock new possibilities.

Screenshot of ohno website: https://ohno-1sq.pages.dev/

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to use Snowflake Cortex functions and models in a React frontend with Hono.

If you want to directly jump to the website — https://ohno-1sq.pages.dev

And the code — https://github.com/kaarthik108/ohno

What is hono ?

HonoX is a simple and fast meta-framework for creating full-stack websites or Web APIs. It simplifies the process of creating backend APIs and connecting them to your frontend application.

Why snowflake Cortex ?

Snowflake Cortex offers a secure and seamless way to leverage language models within your existing data warehouse. It eliminates the need to manage additional infrastructure, as Snowflake Cortex functions are executed directly within your Snowflake environment, providing a serverless and privacy-focused solution.

What are we building today ?

We will build a simple AI chatbot something like chatgpt but using AI models from snowflake’s Cortex.

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