Base Code
Base44 (Wix) · Coding · Productivity
Base Code is a shared cloud development environment from Base44. Teammates describe changes to an existing GitHub codebase in chat, preview them live and send them back as pull requests.
About Base Code
What Is Base Code
Base Code is a standalone product from Base44, the Wix-owned company behind the AI app builder of the same name. It connects a codebase your engineers already built through GitHub, then gives the rest of the company a browser-based workspace where they can change that product directly.
The problem it targets is small and familiar. Product, design, QA and marketing wait on engineering for fixes that take ten minutes to make and two weeks to schedule: a wrong line of copy, a missing form field, a layout that breaks at one screen width. Base Code lets those people describe the fix in plain language, applies it on its own branch, and shows the result running before anyone reviews it. It's vibe coding for teams that already have something in production.
What stays the same matters as much as what changes. Every edit arrives as a standard pull request. Branch protections, required checks and reviewer rules apply exactly as they did before, and nothing merges without a person approving it. Base Code is a development preview rather than a hosting platform, so releases still leave through your existing deployment pipeline.
Getting Started
- Sign in to Base44, open Base Code, and connect a GitHub account by authorizing Base44 Builder.
- Pick a repository from the list or paste its URL. If your account lacks write access, the project opens read-only and you can only browse branches and chat about the code.
- Choose the branch to start from, describe the change in the prompt box, and click Create branch. Base Code reads the codebase, installs what the project needs, and gets a preview running.
- Open Preview to check the change in the actual product, then ask the AI chat for adjustments or have it resolve conflicts and answer review comments.
- Click Create PR once the work looks right. Your engineer reviews the diff on GitHub with the same checks and approval rules as any other branch.
Product Information
A quick look at Base Code's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Product managers
- Designers
- QA and support engineers
- Engineering leads
Tasks
- Copy and content fixes
- Small interface bugs
- Flow experiments
Scenarios
- A launch is scheduled for Friday and marketing needs the pricing page rewritten
- Someone spots a broken screen during a demo on a phone
- A monorepo holds a website and an API that must change together
Key features
One Cloud Environment Per Repository
Connect a repository once and Base Code builds the environment around it. The agent reads the existing code first, so its changes follow the patterns already in the project instead of introducing a second style. Nobody clones anything, and a new teammate can open the project on their first day without installing a toolchain.
Isolated Branches for Every Change
Each request starts its own branch, named by Base Code, and commits land there as the chat works. Nothing touches your default branch, and two people can edit the same project at once without stepping on each other. Branches can be pinned, grouped and archived so the sidebar stays readable on a busy team.
Live Previews of the Running Product
Every branch gets a preview of the real application, not a static mock. The agent loads it in a browser and checks its own work before handing it back, which catches the failures that only appear once a page renders. Monorepos can run several apps at once, and desktop users can put two side by side in split view.
Standard Pull Requests, Unchanged Review Rules
The AI pull requests Base Code opens are ordinary GitHub pull requests from your own account, with the bot listed as co-author. Titles and descriptions come from the chat, CI runs your configured checks, and merging stays a human decision. Teams that already require two approvals keep requiring two approvals.
Team Visibility Across Sessions and Branches
A shared board shows what each teammate is working on, which branch they're on and what their preview looks like right now. You can jump into a colleague's session, read the chat, and continue from where they stopped. For a distributed team, that replaces a lot of status messages, and it's the side of AI code collaboration that engineers usually miss once they try it.
AI Model Choice and Repository Skills
Base Code picks a model per request by default, and you can choose one yourself and set its effort level when a task needs more thinking. Skills stored in the repository teach the chat your conventions. A SKILL.md file in .agents/skills, .claude/skills or .codex/skills is picked up automatically, and Claude Code commands work too.
Encrypted Secrets and GitHub Organization Controls
API keys go into a secrets store that is encrypted, shared across branches and never committed to the repository, and a .env file can be imported in one step. Workspace owners can limit imports to approved GitHub organizations. This is the part that makes an AI coding environment acceptable to a company with a real security review.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Setup happens once in the cloud, so designers, PMs and QA can contribute without a local development environment.
- The engineering workflow survives intact: isolated branches, standard diffs, required checks and human approval.
- Live previews turn review into clicking through a working product rather than reading a diff.
- Session visibility gives engineering a clear view of who is changing what, which is hard to get from tickets.
- Repository skills and encrypted secrets let the agent follow house rules without exposing credentials.
Cons
- GitHub is the only supported host. Teams on GitLab or Bitbucket can't use it today.
- Non-engineers can describe a change, but someone with write access still has to open the pull request, which adds a handoff.
- The preview is for development only. You still need your own hosting and deployment process to release anything.
- Some workspace controls, such as managing GitHub organizations, require the Builder plan or higher, so the cheapest plan won't fit every admin.
Frequently asked questions
Base Code is a cloud development environment for a codebase you already own. It connects to a GitHub repository, runs the project in the browser or on mobile, and lets anyone on the team make changes through an AI chat that ends in a pull request.
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