Thu, May 22, 2025Click, Edit, Ship — Introducing Element Editor
What's new and improved: Direct text editing — You can now simply click on any text element and start typing to change it directly! It works just like editing in a design tool — no coding required and no need for an agent. Before, you needed additional steps to make changes, but now it's as simple as point, click, and type. Enhanced color editing — You can now edit colors even more intuitively! Instead of navigating through menus or remembering color codes, you can make color changes with fewer clicks and see the results instantly. Type in the color name, hex or even use the eyedropper to pick a color. New style controls — We've added even more powerful styling options: Font size adjustments Font weight modifications
Thu, May 15, 2025Replit: The Safest Place for Vibe Coding
We’re beefing up security. We’re launching the world’s best vibe coding history feature. And for those of you bringing Replit to work, we’re improving our Enterprise readiness. Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language. Whether it’s personal software for yourself and family, a new business coming to life, or internal tools at your workplace, Replit is the best place for anybody to build. AI coding is powerful but can be nerve wracking if you're building something for the first time. Is my user information safe? Is my API key exposed? Will my app be vulnerable to attackers? Maybe you didn't even know you had to consider these things to begin with! These challenges can lead users to stumble into vibe coding tragedies. They put too much burden on users to utilize external services, track their own history, or validate the security of their code. We hate hearing stories of users on other platforms who lost months of work, accidentally exposed secret API keys, or even exposed user data.
Thu, May 8, 2025Introducing Replit Auth: add secure login to your app
User login, social sign-in, and user management — all from a single prompt with Replit Auth We’ve heard from users that user login can be one of the hardest features to add. There are many places you can get stuck: configuring external services, managing callbacks, integrating new login providers, and storing user information. Even if you get through all of that, you might be left wondering: is my app actually secure? That’s why today we’re excited to announce Replit Auth. With just a simple modification to your prompt, adding “use Replit Auth”, you’ll get:
Tue, Apr 22, 2025Secure Vibe Coding: The Tools and Fundamentals to Vibe Code Securely
Secure your vibe coding with Replit’s built-in protections and AI-powered security tips. Learn 16 best practices, get a practical checklist, and build safer apps—without slowing down.
Tue, Apr 15, 2025How Zinus Saves $140,000+ and Cuts Development Time by 50% with Replit
The Zinus team turned a costly, time-consuming process into an efficient, automated system by developing internally with Replit. Company: Zinus, Inc. Industry: E-commerce, Home Goods Team: Mason Kim (Global DevOps Engineer) and Joshua Cortez (Software Engineer) Stack: Replit for frontend, custom backend API Impact: $40,000 annual recurring savings on license fees + $112,050 one-time development cost savings, with 50% reduction in development time
Wed, Mar 26, 2025Secure Vibe Coding Made Simple
As vibe coding revolutionizes app development, security can't be an afterthought—it needs to be a core part of the creation process. Recent Stanford research shows that developers using AI assistants wrote less secure code in 80% of tasks compared to those coding manually, while being 3.5 times more likely to overestimate their code's security. And that's professional developers, we've seen an even more concerning trend among vibe coded apps. At Replit, we don't just take this seriously, we build security into every app you create with Agent, by default—something Replit CEO Amjad Masad has called "the Pit of Success". That's why our apps are secure, by default. We bake security in to the process of building with Agent—so you can focus on creating.
Wed, Mar 26, 2025What is Vibe Coding?
From idea to app, fast—that's always been our mission at Replit. But what if you could turn your ideas into working apps without knowing how to code at all? Enter vibe coding: a term that's democratizing app creation for everyone, regardless of technical background. What is vibe coding? Vibe coding refers to the practice of instructing AI agents to write code based on natural language prompts. It's not about being lazy—it's about focusing your time and energy on the creative aspects of app development rather than getting stuck in technical details.
Thu, Mar 13, 2025Agent Just Got Eyes — Click. Describe. Done.
Making changes to your app should be as fast as possible. Instead of manually describing what to edit, what if you could just click? Now you can. Meet Element Selector, a simple yet powerful way to select any UI element in your app and modify it instantly with Agent or Assistant. No need to type out descriptions or search through files — just Click. Describe. Done. How It Works Toggle the Element Selector — You can find it alongside the chat input tools in Agent and Assistant. Click to select — Want to edit a button? Change a heading? Just click it. Describe changes — Assistant updates text, colors, or styles in seconds. Use Agent to add features like turning a static list into a searchable one.
Sat, Mar 8, 2025Everything you need to know about MCP
Learn how Replit's Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI models access tools and data seamlessly using a simple, universal interface.
Wed, Mar 5, 2025Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%
For the past few years, Replit has been using Nix to serve packages/dependencies and provide consistent development environments to our users. Nix on Replit allows users to have access to a large number of packages and libraries that can be seamlessly integrated into a user's project. Motivation In order to quickly serve thousands of packages to our users, we attach a large Nix store persistent disk to all development containers serving Replit apps. While this approach has worked well for a while, this persistent disk grows with every subsequent NixOS release (eventually reaching a size of 20Tb). When considering ways to reduce the size of this disk, one important constraint was to never remove store paths from the cache. Project that depend on packages in older Nix channel releases could still link to these store paths, so in order to maintain backwards compatibility those store paths must remain. Tvix Store Tvix is a new modular implementation of Nix that contains a series of components that can be used individually. One of these components is the Tvix store. tvix-store is a Nix store implementation backed by the tvix-castore. The tvix-castore manages blobs (file contents) and directory info (file metadata, like names, permissions, etc). tvix-store manages nix path info metadata, effectively creating a mapping of Nix store paths to tvix-castore contents.
Thu, Feb 27, 2025Introducing Workflows
With Workflows, you can easily save your development processes and organize them as a sequence of Tasks. Instead of having to repetitively type commands into your shell and remember them, Workflows provide an intuitive interface to configure your frequently used commands and execute them with the click of a button. Simplifying development with Workflows Workflows give you the ability to better organize your project execution pipeline, while offering an accessible interface to reuse them. Using the Workflows pane, you can easily configure specific buttons to run specific commands, and even link multiple Workflows together in a chain. Instead of copy pasting "cd ./client && npm run dev && cd ../server && node server.js", you can define the procedure as a Workflow with multiple Tasks. Let's see how it works with an example.
Wed, Feb 26, 2025Replit's All-new Database Editor
This week, we launched a new Database Editor feature on Replit. This feature is another addition to Replit’s full suite of tools that make it easy for anyone to build an app — no coding knowledge required. When you build an app on Replit, you get a fully-functioning project that’s ready to send out to the world. This includes real databases powered by Postgres: the most popular database in the world, that powers many of the applications you use every day. Did you know? Postgres is used by half of all professional software developers, according to StackOverflow’s developer survey. Replit handles all the setup and management of your databases, so it’s never been easier to get started. Now, we’re making it even easier to use databases on Replit. Inside your app’s workspace, head to the “database” pane, and click to the “My Data” tab. Here, you’ll see a spreadsheet-like view of your app’s data.
Tue, Feb 25, 2025Introducing Replit Agent v2 in Early Access
Smarter with realtime app design preview In partnership with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet launch, we're excited to announce the release of Replit Agent v2 in our early access program. The early access program is available exclusively to users on Replit paid plans who have opted in to Explorer Mode (for instructions on opting in to Explorer Mode, see below). While we're encouraged by initial results, you may encounter speed bumps and areas needing improvement as we continue development. What's new: A more autonomous Agent
Tue, Feb 4, 2025Replit launches the first software creation Agent on iOS and Android
You've always wondered why that app didn't exist. Now you can — Make an App for That. We’re thrilled to announce that everyone can now try Replit Agent for free! Check out what we’re launching: Replit launches the first software creation agent on iOS and Android — use our AI app builder to build and deploy apps from your iPhone or Android. Chat with Agent as if texting a friend, and watch as it writes, deploys, and hosts your app in real time — no laptop required. Free Tier for Everyone: Replit Agent is now accessible to everyone with a free tier that includes trying Agent, making it easier than ever to start building apps!
Thu, Jan 30, 2025Repls are now Replit Apps
Today we made a big update to how we name things on Replit. What we previously called “Repls” are now “Replit Apps”, or just “Apps” for short. It’s a better description of what users are building on Replit today, and more in line with how we name things. REPLs are something we’ve always been a fan of at Replit. The read-eval-print-loop is one of the fastest and most intuitive ways to understand programming, try ideas, and get feedback. Those are all values we try to instill in the product to this day. The name Repl on Replit goes way back, even further than the company itself. When Amjad first launched a project to make coding in the browser easier, it was called JSREPL because it gave you a JavaScript REPL right in the browser. No installing tools, just write code.