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ImagineAI: A code generator that turns your app spec into a Node project

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it's cool, but I'm not seeing why you have "ai" in it, as it seems like it's just a large templating system.

yes. this looks useful, but is it different fundamentally from the scaffolding generators that come with react, rails, Xcode, etc?

it reminds me of Spring Initializer

Clickbait?

Its just the domain (.ai), the project has nothing to do with AI and this nice platform has seen better times: Last release Imagine v1.1.1: July 2, 2021

it's AI in the sense that watson is "AI"

Why don't more services like this exist? This is great! I can have a pre-generated backend, with all the right configuration and I'm surprised that there aren't many GUI to Backend generator services available.

There are, for example https://apibakery.com/ (I'm the author).

If done carefully, the addition of AI will make those services even better (which doesn't seem to be case here, as far as I can see it's just a domain name).

I've also taken a shot at a similar thing (no GUI though!) https://github.com/sashabaranov/pike

Nifty, but this doesn't seem faster than just generating a Django app by hand if you've done it enough times. I'd prefer to cargo-cult my own best practices into a project over some random AI's.

Very nice. Does it also build out authentication and authorization? Login, and JWT validation would be very nice.

I mentor new prospective developers and this would be a great help in surmounting all of the complexity we have to deal with in getting a project to a point where you can start actually building an app. A lot of people who would otherwise be interested in development get overwhelmed with ancillary crap (setting up a basic nodejs express project, for example).

Not op, but I have a similar project which does handle auth and a few other extra goodies like bg workers and dev shell: https://apibakery.com

It uses a bearer token instead of JWT tho, for reasons outlined here: https://apibakery.com/blog/tech/no-jwt/ (HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33019960)

Wish this was opensource (if it is I couldn't find the link) - I'd gladly work on the Laravel versions.

Imagine being able to describe an app with a few paragraphs, and then suddenly, it exists. This future is coming soon.

Damn, you should add Laravel and MySQL too. This is going to be the next Google for real.

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