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Natural Language to Code

Stop writing boilerplate. Start describing what you want. Layout's AI understands plain English and turns your descriptions into clean, production-ready code — React components, API routes, and full-stack apps.

ARAhmed Riyad | Dec 20, 2025
Natural Language to Code

Just Describe It

The way we build software is changing. For decades, turning an idea into a working application required mastering programming languages, frameworks, build tools, and deployment systems. That barrier kept countless great ideas from ever becoming real products.

At layout.dev, we've been working on something that challenges this paradigm entirely. Our natural language to code engine lets you describe what you want to build in plain English — and the AI writes the code for you. Not pseudo-code. Not wireframes. Real, production-ready applications.

What Can You Build With Words?

The short answer: almost anything. Here are some examples of prompts and what Layout generates from them:

"Build a task management app with a kanban board, drag-and-drop cards, and a sidebar for project navigation."

Layout generates a complete React application with a three-column kanban layout, draggable task cards using a drag-and-drop library, a collapsible sidebar with project categories, and local state management to track card positions.

"Create a landing page for a coffee subscription service with a hero section, pricing tiers, and a testimonials carousel."

You get a fully responsive landing page with a full-bleed hero image, three pricing cards with hover effects, a testimonial slider with auto-play, and a sticky navigation bar. All styled with Tailwind CSS.

"I need a dashboard that shows real-time analytics with charts for user growth, revenue, and engagement metrics."

Layout produces a dashboard with a responsive grid of chart components, sample data visualizations, filter controls for date ranges, and a clean data table with sorting and pagination.

How the AI Understands You

Our language model doesn't just pattern-match keywords. It understands context, intent, and relationships between components. When you say "add a sidebar," the AI knows to position it on the left, make it collapsible on mobile, and connect it to the main content area. When you say "make it look professional," it applies consistent spacing, typography, and color schemes.

The AI also maintains context across your conversation. You can iteratively refine your app:

  1. "Build a blog homepage with featured posts."
  2. "Add a dark mode toggle to the header."
  3. "Change the grid to show 2 columns on mobile instead of 1."
  4. "Add a newsletter signup form in the footer."

Each instruction builds on the previous state. The AI remembers what it has already generated and makes targeted modifications without breaking existing functionality.

Clean Code You Can Actually Use

One of the biggest criticisms of AI-generated code is quality. Code that works but is unmaintainable is worse than no code at all. We took this seriously.

Layout generates code that follows modern best practices:

  • Component Architecture: UI is broken into reusable, single-responsibility components. No monolithic files.
  • Tailwind CSS: Styling uses utility classes, keeping styles co-located with markup and eliminating CSS file sprawl.
  • TypeScript: All generated code is fully typed, catching errors at compile time and improving editor auto-completion.
  • Accessibility: Semantic HTML, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, and proper heading hierarchy are built in by default.

Not a Replacement, a Multiplier

We're not trying to replace developers. We're trying to multiply their output. An experienced developer using Layout can scaffold an entire application in minutes, then spend their time on the parts that actually require human judgment — business logic, edge cases, performance optimization, and user experience refinement.

For non-developers — founders, designers, product managers — Layout opens a door that was previously locked. You can now go from idea to working prototype without writing a single line of code, then hand the clean codebase to your engineering team for production hardening.

The Future of Building

Natural language to code isn't a gimmick. It's the beginning of a fundamental shift in how software gets made. And at Layout, we're building the tools to make that shift accessible to everyone. Try it today — describe your next app in your own words, and watch it come to life.