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:
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.
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.
Thu, Jan 16, 2025AI Coding is Better with Python
"Can everyone really code with AI?" I hear this question all the time. Usually after someone sees a viral post about an AI-built app and thinks "I could do that too!" But here's what those posts don't tell you: most AI-generated apps are just pretty shells—nice looking websites that lack functionality. Why? Most AI coding assistants build with JavaScript and are optimized for presenting information to the user (frontend development). These apps lack the backends and services that power functional applications. JavaScript is great. It creates beautiful frontends—Replit’s AI tools use it well. But Replit is unique: we don’t only use JavaScript. In fact, there are many times it’s not the right tool for the job. Perhaps you’re:
Tue, Dec 10, 2024Announcing the New Replit Assistant
Today on Replit, anyone can take their ideas and turn them into software — no coding required. For nearly a decade, Replit’s mission has been to bring coding to the next billion people. We’ve helped millions of people learn to code and made programming less intimidating. But now, thanks to our Agent and Assistant, our AI coding products, we’re taking a giant leap forward. You don’t need to learn coding to be a creator — you just need an idea. From local realtors in Cleveland to Japanese influencers to product managers at some of the world’s largest enterprises, people are building incredible things on Replit. We no longer need to limit ourselves to being users of software, we can all be creators. Today, we’re taking Replit Agent out of early access and officially launching it with groundbreaking updates that will radically expand who can create software. Let us show you what’s possible.
Wed, Nov 13, 2024Zero to MVP
Since joining Replit, I’ve faced a harsh truth—I’ve never written a line of code. As a UC Berkeley student studying business journalism, coding feels out of reach. I’ve had countless app ideas but would always hit the same wall: Who can build this for me? That’s until I discovered Replit. It's a platform that brings ideas to life fast—no technical background needed. Replit bridges the gap between creative vision and actual execution. Making Ideas Happen
Mon, Nov 4, 2024How we name things
What’s in a name? Well, a lot, but first and foremost: stress. Whether we’re naming our babies, pets, companies, or features, we tend to worry a lot about finding the perfect name. We know intuitively that a name will shape how something is perceived and even influence its direction going forward. And yet, this stress isn’t equally distributed. In business, people tend to think a lot about the names of the companies they’re building but leave each product and feature name up to whoever thinks of the best-sounding name first.
Tue, Oct 8, 2024From localhost to live
If you have a body, you are an athlete. Bill Bowerman, Co-founder, Nike The title "programmer" was always reserved for those who code. So it make sense that shipping software is synonymous with, well... writing code. But is the hardest part about shipping really learning to code? I wish. The hardest part(s) are everything that lives between localhost and live. Today, we're seeing a new class of builders—the AI native developer. These users have some technical prowess and build through clever use of the latest tools. But the problem was never just writing code. Despite lower friction to code, roadblocks still exist. Where, you ask?
Mon, Aug 26, 2024Introducing Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment rollbacks are a new feature that allow you to quickly and confidently version your deployments. Rollbacks allow you to restore a previous successful deployment in one click: fix a broken build or a typo in seconds. A quick tour Let’s explore the new additions to the deployment experience. Rollback activation
Fri, Jul 19, 2024Introducing Replit Projects
We’re excited to announce Projects for Replit, a new way to collaborate with your team. This feature is in beta now, available to all Replit Teams customers. Projects let you maintain multiple versions of your team’s codebase and easily merge your changes together when you’re ready. Anyone on your team can “fork” (create a new copy of the code), make changes, preview what changed, and then merge those changes back into the main version with a few clicks. If you weren’t using Replit, it might take a new teammate hours to set up their local development environment, make their changes correctly, and get their code reviewed and merged. Why use Projects? As a team writing software, collaboration is important. Realtime coding or pair programming is useful, but sometimes you need your own space to work. If your whole team was working on their ideas in a realtime session at the same time, one person writing some invalid code would stop everyone else from being able to test their own code. And sometimes, you might want to test out an idea without knowing for sure if it’s the right approach, and be ready to scrap it if it doesn't work out.
Tue, Jul 16, 2024Introducing Replit Teams
In today's fast-paced work environment, using real-time collaboration tools like Google Docs and Figma comes naturally to most of us. As a result, we've come to expect a lot more from our tools. Yet, when it comes to building software, we often find ourselves stuck with tools built for a different era — tools that cause our teams to feel siloed, inefficient, and less collaborative overall. In decades past, the software development lifecycle looked like a rigid industrial process: product managers would hand off documents to designers, and designers would hand off mock-ups to engineers. Today, however, the process is much more fluid and cross-functional. Engineers contribute to design, product managers prototype, and designers code. Still, engineering tools have remained inaccessible to everyone except engineers, preventing meaningful contributions from other roles, and slowing everyone down. This led us to wonder: What would it look like to design software collaboration tools that truly meet the changing needs of 21st-century teams? Introducing Replit Teams Go from idea to software faster than ever before. Today, we’re announcing that Replit Teams is generally available and here to set a new standard for building software.
Thu, May 2, 2024Introducing Object Storage
We’re excited to announce Replit Object Storage, a fast and durable way to persist files and other unstructured data. Object Storage ensures your data is resilient against data loss and usable across the Replit workspace and Deployments. It handles any number of processes reading and writing simultaneously, enabling your application to seamlessly add compute power and scale to handle extra requests. Our goal with Object Storage was to deliver a solution that enables you to start reading and writing files from your application as quickly as possible. We’ve designed the system to require minimal configuration and work out-of-the-box in both the workspace and Deployments. Object Storage excels at storing large amounts of unstructured data (think lots of files with varying shapes and sizes). It’s ideal for: Storing media assets such as images Persisting files uploaded by users such as PDF documents Flexible data storage that doesn’t require configuring a database such as CSV and JSON files
Fri, Apr 5, 2024Advanced port configuration
We recently spent a few months making ports easier to work with on Replit, so you can develop more complex apps predictably. What are ports? When a computer receives a TCP/UDP request, ports define which program that request should route to. (If you need a more basic explanation of TCP ports, start here). On a normal computer, you only have one layer of ports: your programs define a port that they listen to, and when traffic hits that port on your computer from the internet, it gets routed to the appropriate process. Some protocols have defined standard ports — for example, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure (SMTPS), the email protocol, generally listens on port 587, and most web servers listen on either port 80 (HTTP, unencrypted) or port 443 (HTTPS, encrypted). You can think of ports like mailboxes. Imagine those big mailrooms in skyscrapers that ensure the mail lands in the right mailbox — the mail is the data being sent and received, and the mailboxes are the ports.