@stagewise/toolbar

stagewise

Visual vibe coding. Right in your codebase.

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About the project

stagewise is a browser toolbar that connects your frontend UI to your code ai agents in your code editor.

• 🧠 Select any element(s) in your web app
• 💬 Leave a comment on it
• 💡 Let your AI-Agent do the magic

Perfect for devs tired of pasting folder paths into prompts. stagewise gives your AI real-time, browser-powered context.

✨ Features

The stagewise Toolbar makes it incredibly easy to edit your frontend code with AI agents:

• ⚡ Works out of the box
• 🧩 Customise and extend functionality with Plugins
• 🧠 Sends DOM elements & more metadata to your AI agent
• 🧪 Comes with examples for React, Vue, Svelte and more

📖 Quickstart

1. 🧩 Install the extension

Install the extension from the extension store of your code editor:

• Cursor: cursor:extension/stagewise.stagewise-vscode-extension
• VS Code: vscode:extension/stagewise.stagewise-vscode-extension
• Trae: trae:extension/stagewise.stagewise-vscode-extension
• Windsurf: windsurf:extension/stagewise.stagewise-vscode-extension

2. 👨🏽‍💻 Install and inject the toolbar (the extension will guide you)

[!TIP] 🪄 AI-Assisted Setup (recommended):

• In Cursor, Press CMD + Shift + P
• Enter setupToolbar
• Execute the command and the toolbar will init automatically 🦄

Or follow the Manual Setup:

Install @stagewise/toolbar:

pnpm i -D @stagewise/toolbar

Inject the toolbar into your app dev-mode:

// 1. Import the toolbar
import { initToolbar } from '@stagewise/toolbar';

// 2. Define your toolbar configuration
const stagewiseConfig = {
  plugins: [],
};

// 3. Initialize the toolbar when your app starts
// Framework-agnostic approach - call this when your app initializes
function setupStagewise() {
  // Only initialize once and only in development mode
  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
    initToolbar(stagewiseConfig);
  }
}

// Call the setup function when appropriate for your framework
setupStagewise();

⚡️ The toolbar will automatically connect to the extension!

3. 🎉 Start dev mode and begin coding!

The toolbar should appear in the bottom right corner of your web app. If not, please reach out via Discord.

Framework-specific integration examples

For easier integration, we provide framework-specific NPM packages that come with dedicated toolbar components (e.g., <StagewiseToolbar>). You can usually import these from @stagewise/toolbar-[framework-name].

React.js

We provide the @stagewise/toolbar-react package for React projects. Initialize the toolbar in your main entry file (e.g., src/main.tsx) by creating a separate React root for it. This ensures it doesn't interfere with your main application tree.

// src/main.tsx
import { StrictMode } from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import App from './App.tsx';
import { StagewiseToolbar } from '@stagewise/toolbar-react';
import './index.css';

// Render the main app
createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <StrictMode>
    <App />
  </StrictMode>,
);

// Initialize toolbar separately
const toolbarConfig = {
  plugins: [], // Add your custom plugins here
};

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  const toolbarRoot = document.createElement('div');
  toolbarRoot.id = 'stagewise-toolbar-root'; // Ensure a unique ID
  document.body.appendChild(toolbarRoot);

  createRoot(toolbarRoot).render(
    <StrictMode>
      <StagewiseToolbar config={toolbarConfig} />
    </StrictMode>
  );
});

Next.js

Use the @stagewise/toolbar-next package for Next.js applications. Include the <StagewiseToolbar> component in your root layout file (src/app/layout.tsx).

// src/app/layout.tsx
import { StagewiseToolbar } from '@stagewise/toolbar-next';

export default function RootLayout({
  children,
}: Readonly<{
  children: React.ReactNode;
}>) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <StagewiseToolbar
          config={{
            plugins: [], // Add your custom plugins here
          }}
        />
        {children}
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Nuxt.js

For Nuxt.js projects, you can use the @stagewise/toolbar-vue package. Place the <StagewiseToolbar> component in your app.vue or a relevant layout file.

// app.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
import { StagewiseToolbar, type ToolbarConfig } from '@stagewise/toolbar-vue';

const config: ToolbarConfig = {
  plugins: [], // Add your custom plugins here
};
</script>

<template>
  <div>
    <NuxtRouteAnnouncer />
    <ClientOnly>
      <StagewiseToolbar :config="config" />
    </ClientOnly>
    <NuxtWelcome />
  </div>
</template>

Vue.js

Use the @stagewise/toolbar-vue package for Vue.js projects. Add the <StagewiseToolbar> component to your main App component (e.g., App.vue).

// src/App.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
import { StagewiseToolbar, type ToolbarConfig } from '@stagewise/toolbar-vue';

const config: ToolbarConfig = {
  plugins: [], // Add your custom plugins here
};
</script>

<template>
  <StagewiseToolbar :config="config" />
  <div>
    <!-- Your app content -->
  </div>
</template>

SvelteKit

For SvelteKit, you can integrate the toolbar using @stagewise/toolbar and Svelte's lifecycle functions, or look for a dedicated @stagewise/toolbar-svelte package if available. Create a component that conditionally renders/initializes the toolbar on the client side (e.g., src/lib/components/StagewiseToolbarLoader.svelte or directly in src/routes/+layout.svelte).

Using onMount in +layout.svelte (with @stagewise/toolbar):

<!-- src/routes/+layout.svelte -->
<script lang="ts">
  import { onMount } from 'svelte';
  import { browser } from '$app/environment';
  import { initToolbar, type ToolbarConfig } from '@stagewise/toolbar'; // Adjust path if needed

  onMount(() => {
    if (browser) {
      const stagewiseConfig: ToolbarConfig = {
        plugins: [
          // Add your Svelte-specific plugins or configurations here
        ],
      };
      initToolbar(stagewiseConfig);
    }
  });
</script>

<slot />

Using a loader component (example from repository): The example repository uses a ToolbarLoader.svelte which wraps ToolbarWrapper.svelte. ToolbarWrapper.svelte would then call initToolbar from @stagewise/toolbar.

<!-- examples/svelte-kit-example/src/lib/components/stagewise/ToolbarLoader.svelte -->
<script lang="ts">
import type { ToolbarConfig } from '@stagewise/toolbar';
// ToolbarWrapper.svelte is a custom component that would call initToolbar
import ToolbarWrapper from './ToolbarWrapper.svelte'; 
import { browser } from '$app/environment';

const stagewiseConfig: ToolbarConfig = {
  plugins: [
    // ... your svelte plugin config
  ],
};
</script>

{#if browser}
  <ToolbarWrapper config={stagewiseConfig} />
{/if}

You would then use StagewiseToolbarLoader in your src/routes/+layout.svelte.

🤖 Agent support

Agent	Supported
Cursor	✅
GitHub Copilot	✅
Windsurf	✅
Cline	✅
Roo Code	✅
Kilo Code	✅
Trae	✅

🛣️ Roadmap

Check out our project roadmap for upcoming features, bug fixes, and progress.

📜 License

stagewise is developed by tiq UG (haftungsbeschränkt) and offered under the AGPLv3 license.

For more information on the license model, visit the FAQ about the GNU Licenses.

For use cases that fall outside the scope permitted by the AGPLv3 license, feel free to 📬 Contact Us.

🤝 Contributing

We're just getting started and love contributions! Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md guide to get involved. For bugs and fresh ideas, please Open an issue!

💻 Test stagewise locally

• git clone https://github.com/stagewise-io/stagewise && cd stagewise
• pnpm i && pnpm dev
• Open the stagewise project in your IDE
• Uninstall/ Disable the official stagewise extension
• Press F5 (a new IDE window with the local extension-version installed will open up)
• Visit http://localhost:3002

You will see a next.js example application with the stagewise-toolbar already set up. It will be connected to the local vscode-extension in apps/vscode-extension and reflect all the extension-changes you apply locally.

💬 Community & Support

• 👾 Join our Discord
• 📖 Open an issue on GitHub for dev support.

📬 Contact Us

Got questions or want to license stagewise for commercial or enterprise use?

📧 [e-mail]