Build your first app with AI
You can start with a useful result instead of a framework choice. Describe a small website, tracker or business tool, work through the setup with your agent and use the first version before adding more. These guides take you through that complete loop in Vortex.
Choose a first result you can test
A portfolio page needs readable content and navigation. A project tracker needs a way to add an item, change its status and find it after reload. Name one of those outcomes in your first request. A small scope makes it easier to understand what the agent built and explain the next change.
Turn the conversation into a working project
Create a named project, or open an existing folder or repository. Let the agent inspect its dependencies, prepare the intended local environment and start the app. Keep setup failures with their output so you can continue the same project instead of creating duplicate attempts.
Try the app yourself
Open Preview, follow the main flow and test an empty or invalid input. If the app stores data, check it after reload and compare the API response with the database row. Your files and running app stay local; publishing is a separate decision after review.
Follow the detailed guides
- Build your first app
Start with a small idea you can describe in a few sentences. In this guide, you will ask a coding agent to create a simple article website, open it inside Vortex and make one change. You can follow the steps without writing code.
- Give your app a home
Organize project folders in workspaces. Switch project and worktree badges, recognize the selected checkout and keep panel sizes while browsing.
- Run your app and try it
Start your local app, open Browser and select its Preview tab beside website tabs. Try the requested flow, then save and read back data to check it works.
- Chats, drafts and layouts
Choose project context, arrange chats by dragging, resize areas, expand and restore layouts, and understand every main composer control.
- Build an app that saves data
Turn Small Stories into an app whose articles are stored and read back. This walkthrough adds persistence to the first-app guide, using Vortex’s supported Laravel + React starter.