Overview

aiCoder is your AI-powered coding assistant, designed to revolutionize JavaScript development. With advanced merging logic and intelligent suggestions, aiCoder simplifies your workflow while maintaining your codebase's integrity.

Quick Start

You can just run it with npx without installing it globally.
Just cd myProject in to your project folder and launch aiCoder with npx.

Installation

Follow these simple steps to install and start aiCoder:

Once started, open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to access the web UI and begin coding with AI assistance.

aiCoder is different leveraging ASTs

Using the power of ASTs (abstract syntax trees) we parse the code generated by the LLM and surgically replace sections that are modified in the original file.
This guarantees only syntactically correct code in merged and prevents code modifications that delete or mangle code unrelated to the edit.
Say goodby to copying and pasting code chucks between an LLM conversation and your existing editor.

Original code

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Classic LLM workflow

Use Any LLM You Want

aiCoder supports multiple LLM providers

• Ollama for completely local and private code generation suggested model is granite3.1-dense.
• OpenAI (Maker of chat GPT) providing high quality code and inexpensive gpt-4o-mini model.
• Groq (Experimental support) with a small context window and free API key.
• Anthropics’s claude-3-5-haiku works rather well but is a bit expensive.
• GoogleAI using the free gemini-1.5-flash for results similar to gpt-4o-mini. You can get a free api key here.

Key Features

• Automated code snippet merging with AST analysis.
• Seamless integration of AI-suggested changes.
• Backup functionality to preserve original files.
• Interactive plan and chat modes to refine your project.
• Support for local and cloud-based LLMs.
• Single click code generation for stub functions and methods

Usage

• Run aiCoder or a in your project directory.
• Visit http://localhost:3000 to access the web UI.
• Define your project goals in the New Plan Chat.
• Select files to modify and request changes through natural language prompts.
• Review AI-generated snippets and merge them seamlessly with the 🤖✎⚡ button.

FAQs

• How do I reset settings? Delete the ./.aiCoder/ folder and restart aiCoder.
• Can I use aiCoder with other languages? Currently, it supports only JavaScript.
• How do I update aiCoder? Run npm update aicodertool -g.
• Is it linux only or can I use it on windows? Windows support was recently added and is still experimental.
• Can I help? Sure. If folks are interested lets chat on discord. If you are knowledgeable about how LSPs and ASTs work it would be really great to chat.