AI-Powered Web Development at Your Fingertips
Bolt.new is a groundbreaking platform that combines AI and WebContainers technology to empower developers in creating full-stack applications quickly and efficiently. With Bolt.new, you can build, run, and deploy complex applications entirely within your browser, eliminating the need for complicated development environment setups.
Bolt.new integrates cutting-edge AI models to generate code structures based on natural language prompts. Developers can quickly create complex applications, including multi-page apps, backend services, and database integrations.
Leveraging WebContainers technology, Bolt.new provides a full-stack development environment directly in your browser. Write, run, debug, and deploy applications without additional software installation.
Deploy your applications to Netlify or Cloudflare with a single click. No need for complex credential configuration or server setup.
Bolt.new's applications are diverse, suitable not only for daily web development projects but also for other creative needs. Users can quickly generate task management applications, personal blog websites, presentations, and even animated videos through simple prompts.
Bolt.new is an AI-powered web development platform that allows developers to create, edit, run, and deploy full-stack applications entirely within a browser.
Unlike traditional online IDEs that run on remote servers, Bolt.new operates entirely within your browser using WebContainers technology, providing faster performance and enhanced security.
Yes, Bolt.new supports offline work, allowing you to continue development even without an internet connection.
Yes, Bolt.new operates within the browser's security sandbox, providing a high level of security for your development process.
Bolt.new supports a wide range of web technologies, including but not limited to React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, and Node.js. It's constantly expanding to support more frameworks and libraries.
Bolt.new uses advanced AI models to interpret natural language prompts and generate corresponding code structures. This allows developers to quickly scaffold projects or add features by describing them in plain English.
Yes, Bolt.new offers real-time collaboration features, allowing multiple developers to work on the same project simultaneously, similar to Google Docs for coding.
Posted on May 20, 2021 by Eric Simons, CEO
A few years ago we realized that the web was heading towards a key inflection point. The advent of WebAssembly and new capabilities APIs made it seem possible to write a WebAssembly-based operating system powerful enough to run Node.js, entirely inside your browser. We envisioned a superior development environment that was faster, more secure and consistent than local environments, to enable seamless code collaboration without ever having to set up a local environment.
This sounded far-fetched. But if the web now runs full environments for graphic designers, video editors, and rich document editing, we wondered: is it finally possible for developers to use the web to build the web?
We decided to give it a shot. We hoped for the best, and expected the worst. Two years later (time flies 😅), the result has shaped up to be unexpectedly phenomenal.
WebContainers allow you to create fullstack Node.js environments that boot in milliseconds and are immediately online & link shareable—in just one click. The environment loads with VS Code's powerful editing experience, a full terminal, npm and more. It also runs entirely inside your browser, which yields some key benefits:
"That's right: the Node.js runtime itself is running natively, inside the browser, for the first time ever."
Again, these environments are not running on remote servers. Instead, each environment is completely contained within your web browser. That's right: the Node.js runtime itself is running natively, inside the browser, for the first time ever.
Setting up local environments is a huge buzzkill—especially if you want to rapidly prototype a cool idea, try out a new open source library, create a bug reproduction or collaborate with a coworker ("hey, can you check out this branch locally really quick?" 😒). This problem is more common than ever as web development moves towards fullstack SSR and SSG toolchains like Next.js.
Running user-submitted code for bug reproductions is also becoming a major security risk for open source maintainers and Fortune 100 companies alike, and these types of supply chain attacks are on the rise.
StackBlitz solves these problems by leveraging the decades of speed and security innovations built into your browser. All computation in StackBlitz happens instantly within the browser security sandbox and cannot break out to your local machine. This model also unlocks some key development & debugging benefits.
We're spending the next quarter or two in beta as we work with open source maintainers to bring full compatibility to their userbases and stabilize the core WebContainer technology. What's coming after that is a fully-featured StackBlitz v2.
The future of software development is bright. Much remains to be done, but we can now confidently say that a future free from local instances of node, npm, git, and VS Code is a tangible possibility, and even enable the world's software to run in places it couldn't before.