A few days ago, Google released a multi-platform application development artifact: IDX.
IDX is backed by Codey, an AI programming artifact, supports frameworks such as React and Vue, and can also complete and explain codes.
The more distinctive point is that this is a browser-based full-stack development tool for multi-platform application development.
Why is this development artifact based on a browser? It is said that it is to be able to program on any device at any location anytime, anywhere. After all, as long as the device can open the browser, it can be developed. The code and development tools do not need to be reconfigured, and it is completely faithful to local development.
Google didn't build a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) when they created IDX, but used VS Code as the basis for their projects. Currently, IDX supports frameworks such as Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte, and Vue, as well as languages such as JavaScript and Dart, and will support Python, Go, and other languages in the future.
Also, IDX lets us import existing projects from GitHub so we can pick up where we left off. We can also create new projects with pre-baked templates for popular frameworks, including Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte, Vue, and languages like JavaScript, Dart, and Python, Go (the latter two coming soon).
Currently, the AI capabilities of the IDX project are in their early stages, but already have smart code completion, an assistive chatbot, and contextual code actions such as "add a comment" and "explain this code."
The AI function here is powered by Codey.
If you have paid attention to the Google Developers Conference, we should know that at the Google I/O 2023 conference, Google officially released Codey. It's a new AI-driven tool that writes and understands code. The new tool is seen as Google's answer to GitHub Copilot, the result of an alliance with Replit.
Codey is based on Google's next-generation large language model PaLM 2, and uses Google's own product code and a large number of legally licensed source codes as training materials.
Codey supports more than 20 programming languages, including Go, Google Standard SQL, Java, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. Developers can access Codey through extensions for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDE, Google Shell editor, and Google Cloud's hosted workstation service.
Developers can communicate with the model directly in the IDE's chat box (such as the Android Studio Bot), or write comments in the text file to instruct it to generate the relevant code. It supports a variety of coding tasks, helping developers work faster and close the skills gap by:
Code Completion: Codey suggests the next few lines based on the context of the code entered in the prompt.
Code generation: Codey generates codes based on the developer's natural language prompts.
Code Chat: Codey allows developers to chat with a bot to get help with debugging, documentation, learning new concepts, and other code-related issues.
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In addition, the IDX development artifact registration application address is as follows: https://idx.dev/
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