AI is quickly becoming an efficient assistant that can do anything you throw at it. For example, you do not need to know coding to design and create a website from scratch. 

Vercel offers an all-powerful site-building tool to help developers create landing pages and entire websites in days rather than months. Initially a web hosting platform, Vercel provides a straightforward and intuitive interface where a non-coder or a layperson with no coding skills can create code-based webpages and user interfaces with zero programming knowledge. 

This tutorial shows you how to generate React and Tailwind-based interfaces from prompts and uploaded screenshots using the Vercel V0 product. Remember, this is about creating the front-end of websites. Note that you cannot yet generate back-end server-based coding, although that might be one of the features that Vercel could integrate in the future.

Generate a web page using a prompt

Access https://v0.dev and sign up for an account. After confirming your email, you will see a simple webpage with a box for a prompt. Type the prompt to generate a simple web page or a landing page. To help you with it, try the following prompt:

Prompt:

Create an intricate webpage for an interior design business that sells interior design services to private and business customers. Use some colors and a good, readable font. Generate a few images for the header and other sections of the webpage. Ensure that it looks professional and conforms to current standards.

Vercel generates a fascinating webpage with images and text in under a minute. It also generates the HTML code in a React file. 

I asked it to provide images, but Vercel doesn’t support image creation. You can upload a few photos and instruct it to use them for the webpage. 

Of course, if you do not like the layout, you can always instruct Vercel to create a new one.

You can also use prompts to add components to the webpage by writing a follow-up message.

Prompt:

Please add a section that shows big media names slide with vibrating colors and logos with the heading As seen on. Also, make the logo bluish-purple.

Vercel will crank out the webpage according to your preferences. 

Note: You can view the code by clicking the home page.tsx link at the top of the viewing page.

Generate a web page using a screenshot of any website

Another great feature of Vercel is the ability to upload a screenshot of your favorite website and instruct it to create a similar webpage. 

You can reference any webpage. This is useful if you're looking at an existing website and want to make a similar one.

Prompt:

Please create a {describe your request in detail}
We uploaded a very famous interior design webpage. This is the results from V0. 

It’s not perfect, but it is a good start. You can always try more prompts to edit the design, text, and image placement. We used the following prompt to make edits:

Prompt:

Please make the following edits:
- Left justified all components of the page except the navbar
- Color the clickable buttons with burgundy
- Make the title text two lines max

Here is the result:

That’s more like it. We can have a perfect initial webpage populated with images and other artifacts using a few more prompts. 

Generate product UI prototypes

Along with static/dynamic web pages, Vercel can generate UI prototypes of an application or a web service. The more descriptive and detailed the prompt, the better the output. 

Prompt:

Build an {describe the web app in as much detail as possible}

Vercel generated an exciting online chat room with just one prompt. Even though it doesn’t work now, it is a way to start the UI interface design and layout. You can instruct Vercel by providing prompts to integrate more components into the app. 

At the top right corner of the preview window, you can add the generated code to a codebase and keep developing more. Add all of it to the codebase, and you might skip paying for a UI front-end coder!

To interact with the interface, click the expand button at the top right corner of the preview page. It will launch a fully interactive page where you can interact with the components. 

To help you understand Vercel's capabilities, I instructed it to modify this chat app to look more like Slack.

Here’s what it generated:

You can see that the messaging feature works very well. 

Create UI components for a web app

Since we have already created a fascinating web app, why not add some UI components and see how it goes?

Write a prompt in the left panel of the page and click the ‘Send’ button. 

Prompt:

Can you add more UI components { describe what you want here}

Vercel will create the components using React and Tailwind. The output was remarkable. This was more than I expected. 

There is a search bar at the top, a private room feature, emojis, a flagging feature, and a disappearing messages feature. 

Add it to your codebase for future reference. You can now pay your developer much less than what you used to. This is how you can build the next big idea of yours. Not only will you see your idea in the flesh, but you can interact with it and find ways to make your dream come true. 

Apart from adding the code to the codebase, you can also copy/paste to add the code blocks to your own codebase. 

You can copy or download the code. The downloaded file will have a .tsx extension. The code can be used to generate the entire web app UI interface.

The possibilities are endless. You can generate any ideas with Vercel. Whether it is a web app, a website, or a UI component, the underlying React and Tailwind code can create whatever you instruct Vercel to create. Happy V0ing!