Dyad

Dyad is a local, open-source AI app builder. It's fast, private, and fully under your control — like Lovable, v0, or Bolt, but running right on your machine.

More info at: https://dyad.sh/

🚀 Features

• ⚡️ Local: Fast, private and no lock-in.
• 🛠 Bring your own keys: Use your own AI API keys — no vendor lock-in.
• 🖥️ Cross-platform: Easy to run on Mac or Windows.

🧰 Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 20
• npm (comes with Node.js)
• Git

You can verify your versions:

node -v
npm -v

🏗️ Install (from source)

git clone https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad.git
cd dyad
npm install

▶️ Run locally (development)

• Start the app with the default configuration:

npm start

• Optionally, point the app to a locally running engine (on http://localhost:8080/v1):

npm run dev:engine

Environment variables (optional)

• DYAD_ENGINE_URL: URL of the Dyad engine (defaults to built-in configuration).
• DYAD_GATEWAY_URL: URL of a compatible gateway if you prefer to route requests.

Example:

DYAD_ENGINE_URL=http://localhost:8080/v1 npm start

📦 Build installers (make)

Create platform-specific distributables:

npm run make

Outputs are written to the out/ directory.

🧪 Tests and linting

# Unit tests
npm test

# Lint
npm run lint

# Prettier check
npm run prettier:check

🤝 Community

Join our growing community of AI app builders on Reddit: r/dyadbuilders - share your projects and get help from the community!

🛠️ Contributing

Dyad is open-source (Apache 2.0 licensed).

If you're interested in contributing to dyad, please read our contributing doc.

License

• All the code in this repo outside of src/pro is open-source and licensed under Apache 2.0 - see LICENSE.
• All the code in this repo within src/pro is fair-source and licensed under Functional Source License 1.1 Apache 2.0 - see LICENSE.