via “live preview environment with hot-reload development server”
Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
Unique: Embeds the development server as a managed child process within Electron, capturing console output and HMR events via IPC rather than relying on external browser tabs. This keeps the entire development loop (chat, code generation, preview, debugging) in a single window, eliminating context switching. The preview is isolated via BrowserView, preventing generated app code from accessing Dyad's main process or user data.
vs others: Tighter integration than Bolt (which opens preview in separate browser tab), more reliable than v0's Vercel preview (no deployment latency), and fully local unlike Lovable's cloud-based preview.