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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
Appy Pie's AI app builder turns prompts into publishable native iOS/Android apps with backend, payments and push, aimed at non-coders.
Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.
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- ✦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
- ✦Prompt-to-app AI generator
- ✦Native Android and iOS binaries
- ✦Included backend, payments and push
- ✦Visual editor with natural-language edits
- ✦Store publishing assistance
- ✦Prompts understood in 8 languages
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →Launching native apps without coding
- →Building apps for SMB verticals
- →Publishing to Google Play and the App Store
- →Adding payments and push to an 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
- →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.