Angular and AI Tools

I will only cover LLMs and the tools I have used and have experience with for Angular development. I will also try to update this file constantly with new tools and models as I find them.

Note: Honestly all models suck at modern angular development in their basic form. you need to pre-prompt them to use the new features and patterns in Angular 18+.

Best AI model for modern Angular development and coding

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 or Claude 3.5

Hands down, this is the best AI model for modern Angular development. Emphasis in the word modern. I find that this family of models can be pre-prompted effectively to use new features and patterns in Angular 18+.

Best local AI model for modern Angular development and coding

None

Honestly, I would not recommend any local AI model for modern Angular development. Maybe with some RAG set up or some extra tools. If you have something that runs in less than 24 GB of RAM, let me know!

Best AI model for pre angular 18 development and coding

Any model

I usually don’t do older than angular 18 nowadays, but in general all models seem decent with out crazy pre-prompting.

AI Tools for Software Development

My favorite AI enabled IDE

Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

My favorite AI tool with agent mode

Cline: For smaller codebases. It is the funest of all the tools I have used. Sometimes it fails because it tries too much though.

VSC Copilot: For large codebases. This tool works well because it does not try to do too much. Also it gets pretty decent knowledge of your active tabs and such.

My favorite AI tool for auto-complete

VSC Copilot: The more you use it, the better suggestions it gives you.

Bolt.new: I tried using it for like 4 months but every other prompt bolt would be trying to revert my angular to v16 or something like that.
Firebase Studio: Really Google? it basically does not even follow instructions using the built-in model. Un-usable.