Some convenience functions for facilitating vibe coding using just a chatbot (i.e. without requiring an AI-integrated IDE).
I really don't enjoy "vibe coding" at all. I feel that it makes me into a weaker developer and I find myself spending the entire development time debugging.
However, I do find the almost instant creation of throw-away POC web apps very powerful, which is why I wrote the scripts in this repo - they just do simple things like string templating, and creating and populating files and folders.
Here is an example of how I used these scripts to make a very basic single page virus simulation web app:
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First, I made a copy of my basic software requirements document template templates/software_requirements_spec.md and saved it to local_temp/software_requirements_spec.md. Then I filled in the copy with my app requirements.
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Then I ran this script, pointing it to my filled in requirements doc:
uv run python -m src.prompts.create_project_folder_structure \
--requirements_doc 'local_temp/software_requirements_spec.md'This script prints out a prompt to the terminal, which I then copied from my terminal and pasted into the ChatGPT web app. Once ChatGPT returned a folder structure to me, I removed some of the files which I didn't want and pasted the edited result into local_temp/project_folder_structure.json.
- I then ran this script to create the folder structure:
uv run python -m src.create_project_folder_structure \
--input_filepaths_list 'local_temp/project_folder_structure.json' \- Then, I put a list of file paths which I wanted ChatGPT to write file contents for in local_temp/filepaths_to_populate.json and ran this script:
uv run python -m src.prompts.populate_files \
--input_filepaths_list 'local_temp/filepaths_to_populate.json'...which prints out a prompt to the terminal. I copied this prompt from my terminal and pasted it into the ChatGPT web app.
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I copied the response from ChatGPT (containing the generated contents for my files) into local_temp/files_contents.md
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Then I ran this script, which populates my local files:
uv run python -m src.populate_files \
--input_file_contents 'local_temp/files_contents.md'Then I ran the app, and none of the buttons worked (typical finish haha). I told ChatGPT, and it corrected it's own error very easily. The app is not EXACTLY what I asked for, but it works fine. You can go try it by opening local_temp/llm_app/virus-simulation-app/index.html