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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

GitLoop
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI codebase assistant that chats with your repos to search, debug, review PRs, and generate docs and unit tests.

👁 11K/mo2.7K
Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree

Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.

👁 1.1M/mo
Jam
✓ verifiedFreemium

One-click bug-reporting tool that auto-captures console, network logs and repro steps for developers.

👁 730K/mo2.9K
Firebase Studio
✓ verifiedFree

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

👁 531K/mo
Pricing

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Free trial available

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Free: $0 (30 Jams/mo, 5 recording links)
Team: $14/creator per month billed yearly (unlimited Jams)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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
  • Chat with your repositories
  • Natural-language codebase search
  • Fast code indexing
  • AI pull-request and commit review
  • Automated documentation generation
  • AI unit-test generation
  • 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
  • One-click bug capture via browser extension
  • Automatic repro steps
  • Console, network and device logs
  • Instant replay of recent activity
  • Backend tracing and an AI debugger
  • Integrations with Jira, Linear, GitHub and Slack
  • 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
  • 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
  • Onboard new developers to a codebase
  • Resolve bugs faster
  • Generate docs and tests automatically
  • Review pull requests with AI
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
  • Filing detailed bug reports
  • Reproducing issues faster in QA
  • Sharing debug context with engineers
  • Triaging support bug reports
  • 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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