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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Project IDX by Google
✓ verifiedFree
Google's cloud-based, AI-assisted development environment, now rebranded and merged into Firebase Studio.
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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/mo
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Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦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
- ✦Cloud-based IDE accessible from the browser
- ✦AI-assisted coding
- ✦Cross-platform app development
- ✦Preconfigured workspaces and templates
- ✦Now part of Firebase Studio
- ✦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
- ✦Design canvas integrated directly into the IDE (VSCode/Cursor)
- ✦Agent-driven MCP canvas based on open design format
- ✦AI Multiplayer for generating screens and flows in parallel
- ✦Design as Code: Design files live in repo, versioned with Git
- ✦Pixel-perfect vector-to-code workflow
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →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 apps from anywhere in the browser
- →Prototyping with AI assistance
- →Developing cross-platform applications
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Designing new products and features with pixel-perfect precision without leaving the development environment.
- →Eliminating design handoffs by having design and code live under one roof.
- →Accelerating workflow by using AI multiplayer to generate UI components and flows.
- →Shipping production-ready apps with guaranteed code-design alignment.
- →Integrating existing design systems directly from the codebase.
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