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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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✓ verifiedFreemium

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

👁 775K/mo
Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

👁 35M/mo69K
Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree

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
  • 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
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • 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.
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
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