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Aide Dev
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Aide helps developers code faster with parallel agents and automated workflows.

7.6K visits/mo
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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

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Angular.dev
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Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.

1.1M visits/mo
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Rork
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI chat-based builder that lets non-developers describe an app and generate native mobile apps to publish to app stores.

1.1M visits/mo
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Firebase Studio
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Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.

531K visits/mo
Pricing
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Core features
  • Parallel Agents for faster coding
  • GitHub native integration
  • Automated PR workflow
  • Smart PR suggestions
  • Automatic code reviews
  • Real-time progress tracking
  • in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
  • workspace source-code context sharing
  • support for custom, user-defined assistants
  • secure management of the user's OpenAI account
  • Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
  • Built-in control flow and deferrable views
  • Server-side rendering and hydration
  • First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
  • AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
  • In-browser tutorials and playground
  • Chat-based app generation from a natural-language description
  • Native iOS app output that can be published to the App Store
  • Native game generation including 3D worlds and multiplayer
  • File uploads to guide generation (larger uploads on paid tiers)
  • Import paths from other builders/tools (e.g., Lovable, GitHub)
  • Cloud workspaces for full-stack development
  • App Prototyping agent from natural language
  • Gemini AI for coding, debugging and docs
  • Repo import from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
  • Web previews and Android emulators
  • Deploy to Firebase App Hosting, Hosting or Cloud Run
Use cases
  • Automating code reviews
  • Generating PRs automatically
  • Improving code quality through continuous improvements
  • getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
  • using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
  • quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
  • Non-developers building and shipping a mobile app idea
  • Indie creators prototyping and monetizing app-store apps
  • Building simple multiplayer or 3D games without coding
  • Converting an existing web project or repo into a mobile app
  • Prototyping apps from a prompt or mockup
  • Building full-stack apps in the browser
  • Collaborating and sharing preview URLs
  • Deploying and monitoring apps quickly
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