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Convex
✓ verifiedFreemium
TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
692K visits/mo20K saves
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Angular.dev
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Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
1.1M visits/mo
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Banani
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI copilot that turns text or references into editable, multi-screen UI prototypes exportable to Figma or code.
419K visits/mo13K saves
Pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
No public pricing
Hobby: FREE
Plus: $19/month
Enterprise: Custom
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦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
- ✦AI-powered app generation
- ✦Text-to-code conversion
- ✦Full-stack Next.js app creation
- ✦Custom domain deployment
- ✦Automatic SSL certificate provisioning
- ✦Fork versions of your app
- ✦Design canvas integrated directly into the IDE (VSCode/Cursor)
- ✦Agent-driven MCP canvas based on open design format
- ✦AI Multiplayer for generating screens and flows in parallel
- ✦Design as Code: Design files live in repo, versioned with Git
- ✦Pixel-perfect vector-to-code workflow
- ✦Text-to-UI prototype generation
- ✦Design from image or Figma references
- ✦Interactive multi-screen prototypes
- ✦Conversational AI editing
- ✦Export to Figma, HTML/CSS, images
- ✦MCP access for coding agents
Use cases
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Generating SaaS templates
- →Creating local business websites (e.g., restaurant templates)
- →Building blogs and news sites
- →Developing mobile app landing pages
- →Creating chatbots
- →Designing new products and features with pixel-perfect precision without leaving the development environment.
- →Eliminating design handoffs by having design and code live under one roof.
- →Accelerating workflow by using AI multiplayer to generate UI components and flows.
- →Shipping production-ready apps with guaranteed code-design alignment.
- →Integrating existing design systems directly from the codebase.
- →Rapid UI wireframing
- →Prototyping product screens
- →Recreating a reference UI
- →Handing designs to developers
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