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Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree

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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Continue
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.

775K visits/mo
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Piny
✓ verifiedFreemium

In-IDE visual editor for Astro, React, Next.js and Tailwind that edits your real code, with a free tier and paid Pro features.

6.1K visits/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.

35M visits/mo69K saves
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Firebase Studio
✓ verifiedFree

Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.

531K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

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Free: $0/year
Pro Monthly: $15/mo
Pro Yearly: $120/year

Free trial available

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Core features
  • 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
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • Visual Tailwind controls that edit real code
  • Tailwind class inspector and everywhere-editing
  • Component navigation and preview
  • AI-assisted drag-and-drop UI building
  • Pro visual select and multi-element editing
  • Custom Tailwind theme import
  • Chat-to-app and website generation
  • Real-time prototype building
  • One-click deploy and hosting
  • Templates to start projects
  • Credit-based building with shared workspaces
  • You own your code and data
  • 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
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Visually styling Tailwind components in the IDE
  • Building UI faster alongside an AI coding assistant
  • Navigating and editing components across a project
  • Editing Lovable or other React/Next.js projects
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • 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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