DynEx: Structured Design Exploration for AI Code Synthesis

This repository accompanies our research paper: DynEx: Dynamic Code Synthesis and Structured Design Exploration For Accelerated Exploratory Programming. It contains the code to our core dimensions for Design Matrix exploration, as well as our modular code generation pipeline. Below are the steps to set up DynEx on your local machine.

Front End

In one terminal...

Set up

Make sure npm, react, and mui are installed

To run FE

cd frontend
npm start

BackEnd

In another terminal...

Set up

cd backend
conda env create -n UIDesignProto -f environment.yml

pip install as necessary
create a .env file within the backend directory
and add your Open AI API key and Anthropic API Key. They should be saved as follows: "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"="xyz", and "OPENAI_API_KEY"="xyz"
create a generated folder within backend directory - this is where all the generated code will stay

To run BE

conda activate UIDesignProto
python server.py