Trae is a powerful AI integrated development environment (IDE) launched by ByteDance, aimed at Chinese developers. Its advantages are as follows: What is Trae? 1. Product Positioning: Trae aims to provide a more optimized user experience for Chinese developers by competing with internationally renowned tools like Cursor and Windsurf, particularly in programming convenience and efficiency in a Chinese environment. 2. Technical Foundation: Trae integrates mainstream international large models such as Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o, featuring intelligent code generation and logic optimization capabilities. 3. Interaction Modes: • It offers two modes: Chat and Builder. In Chat mode, users can input questions or code requirements through a dialog box, and Trae will generate code suggestions or answers based on the AI model. • The Builder mode is more powerful; users only need to simply describe their needs, such as “generate an image compression tool,” and Trae can automatically generate project code, breaking down the entire project construction process into multiple steps, while optimizing each part automatically. Users can preview and control the progress at any time, adjusting their needs at each step. 4. Application Scenarios: Suitable for various scenarios including web development, game development, data processing, API development, tool development, as well as learning and teaching. Advantages of Trae 1. Native Chinese Support: Designed from the ground up to support Chinese, with a fully localized interface. Whether coding, commenting, or interacting with AI, users can do so in Chinese, greatly lowering the barrier for Chinese developers. 2. Intelligent Code Generation and Optimization: Capable of quickly generating high-quality code snippets based on natural language descriptions, whether it’s a simple function definition or a complex algorithm implementation, it can accurately understand developers’ needs. Additionally, it provides code completion, optimization, and refactoring suggestions, reducing the workload of manual coding and significantly improving code quality. 3. Multi-Modal Interaction: Developers can upload images, and Trae will accurately understand the content of the images and generate related code using AI functionality, greatly simplifying the process of expressing needs and implementing code. 4. Convenient Project Preview and Debugging: It offers a Webview feature, allowing direct preview of web pages within the IDE. For front-end development, developers can view development results in real-time without switching to a browser. 5. Automatic Code Completion: The automatic code completion capability is outstanding, intelligently predicting and generating code based on context, greatly improving coding efficiency and reducing potential spelling and syntax errors that may arise from manual input. 6. Personalization and Compatibility: Supports various theme colors, allowing users to set preferences based on their tastes and working habits. It also supports importing extensions and settings from VS Code or Cursor, enabling developers to quickly switch to the Trae environment. Plugins can be installed from its own extension store or through the VS Code marketplace for more options, achieving personalized customization of functionalities. 7. Free Usage: Built-in Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o models are available for developers to use unlimitedly for a limited time, ensuring that developers can utilize these advanced AI technologies to enhance coding speed without restrictions. In summary, Trae injects new vitality into the field of AI-assisted programming with its powerful features, native support for Chinese, and the advantage of free usage. With its continuous improvement and promotion, Trae is expected to occupy an important position in the global AI programming market.
1. Installation 1. Visit the Trae official website (https://www.trae.ai/home), click to download the installation package. Currently, Trae only supports macOS, with a Windows version in preparation and expected to be released soon. If you can’t wait for the Windows version, you can install macOS in a virtual machine for experience. 2. After installation, click the Trae icon to launch the program. The first launch will enter the setup interface, requiring some simple settings. • Choose the interface language (recommended Chinese) and theme (such as Dark, Light, or DeepBlue). • If you have previously used VSCode or Cursor on PC, you can click the corresponding option to import extensions, settings, and key bindings from these two IDEs into Trae for a quick switch of development environment. You can also choose to skip this step. • You can choose to install the “trae” command in the local terminal for later launching Trae or opening projects in Trae via the command line. For example, use the “trae” command to quickly launch Trae, and “trae my-react-app” to open the specified project in Trae. You can also skip this installation step. 3. After completing the setup, click the continue button to enter the main interface of Trae. 2. Usage 1. Registration and Login: Register and log in using an email or social media account to use the built-in AI models for free. 2. Main Modes: Trae has two main working modes: Chat mode and Builder mode. • Chat Mode: In this mode, users can invoke the Chat feature using hotkeys (such as Cmd+i or Cmd+u) and enter questions or code requirements in the dialog box. Trae will generate code suggestions or answers, displaying a comparison between the original code and the optimized code. Additionally, users can upload images to express needs and analyze problems more intuitively. During the coding process, whether explaining code meanings, writing code comments, fixing code errors, or providing programming mode suggestions, the AI assistant can provide timely and effective help. • Builder Mode: In this mode, users can generate project code by simply describing their needs. During the generation process, Trae may ask for user consent (such as whether to execute a command) and requires manual confirmation. Developers only need to inform the AI of the type of application they want to create, and it will automatically handle various tasks from project setup, including task decomposition, file creation or modification, and generating and executing commands, allowing developers to quickly create projects from scratch. 3. Code Preview and Debugging: With the Webview feature, users can directly preview web pages within the IDE, which is convenient for front-end development. 4. Other Features: • Supports API development, quickly generating API requests and backend interface code, as well as generating API documentation and testing code. • Supports tool development, generating code and automation scripts for practical tools (such as image compression and file encryption) based on descriptions. • Supports learning and teaching, generating basic code examples in various programming languages to help beginners understand syntax and logic, providing code examples for teachers to use in teaching. • Covers basic IDE functionalities such as code writing, project management, plugin management, and version control, providing developers with a complete development environment. Overall, Trae is a powerful AI programming tool that helps developers write code more efficiently through intelligent code completion, multi-modal interaction, and context analysis of the entire codebase.