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Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
IDE coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that uses your own API keys across 15+ model providers, with agentic mode and autocomplete.
Free official toolkit that wires Claude Code, Cursor and similar AI coding tools into Shopify's docs, schemas and CLI for app building.
Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
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- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦BYOK access to 15+ model providers
- ✦Agentic planning-then-build mode
- ✦AI autocomplete
- ✦MCP connections to external systems
- ✦Custom rules and live context tracking
- ✦Local models via Ollama/LM Studio
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains plugins
- ✦One-command plugin install for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and more
- ✦Bundled Shopify documentation and GraphQL API schemas for agents
- ✦Built-in code validation against Shopify's implementation rules
- ✦Store execute capability so an agent can act on a real Shopify store via CLI
- ✦Optional granular install of individual agent skills
- ✦Local Dev MCP server option requiring no authentication
- ✦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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Code generation, refactoring and debugging
- →Control AI spend with your own keys
- →Switch between frontier models per task
- →Keep code private and data-sovereign
- →Scaffolding and building Shopify apps with an AI coding assistant
- →Validating app code against Shopify's platform rules before shipping
- →Letting an agent manage a Shopify store through natural-language CLI commands
- →Connecting Shopify's developer docs directly into an editor's AI chat
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development