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Use Coffee to iterate on your frontend using AI

by transitivebs on 12/14/23, 6:51 PM with 6 comments

• by transitivebs on 12/14/23, 6:51 PM

  Coffee is a new OSS framework which lets you build and iterate on your frontend code – right from your own IDE.

  It's currently focused on React, and the team at Coframe behind the project has experimented with a few distinct DX flows for how a frontend-focused Copilot should work.

  The best part of the project is there's no real dependencies – just run one docker command, add `<Coffee>instructions</Coffee>` somewhere in your project, and hit save to see the magic happen.

  It's currently pretty slow and has a bunch of rough edges imho, but I'm excited to see more experiments around generative UI in this space – and in particular, how we can build AI-based solutions which work well alongside a developer's existing workflow instead of taking them out of it – or worse, trying to replace them?

• by onum on 12/14/23, 7:05 PM

  Some background on why this DX: - you can pass real props and see how the component works. - you work in the same dev env, as you already do (IDE/Editor) - It leads to splitting the code into smaller blocks (which is good for LLM and humans).

• by josh-payne on 12/14/23, 6:53 PM

  We have achieved caffeination internally

• by habazzi on 12/14/23, 7:01 PM

  This is a giant leap forward

• by tunahfishy on 12/14/23, 6:56 PM

  the hottest programming language is really natural language