🔧 Anima AI Playground: Designing and Building full-stack SAAS Application

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📆 Veröffentlicht am: 29.04.2025 um 10:23 Uhr
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Under the Hood

Hey everyone 👋

Welcome to our latest blog on building full-stack apps in the AI era!

Last week, we dove deep into how to convert Figma designs into React code using the Anima AI code editor. If you're new here, check out our previous post:

If you are new to Anima AI code editor, check out the last blog (link below)

Anima AI code editor, Figma design to React code instantly

What We’ll Cover

In this blog, we’ll walk through how to build a complete SAAS app using the Anima Figma plugin and the Anima AI Playground. On top of that, we’ll add payments and a database to make the app production-ready and ready to launch 🚀

Table of Contents

• Discussing the SAAS App Idea

• Designing the App in Figma (Multi-page)

• Getting Started with Anima Figma Plugin

• Converting Figma Designs to React

• Developing a SAAS App via Anima AI Playground

• Integrating Lemon Squeezy Payments

• Connecting a Database (Firebase Firestore)

• Customisation, Error Handling, & Responsiveness

• Final Touches

• Product Demo

• Conclusion

Grab your coffee ☕ — this one will be a bit longer than expected!

SAAS Application Idea

Our goal is to show how to use Anima’s tools to build and launch a real-world application quickly.

SAAS App Idea: Vibe

In this project, we’re building Vibe — a directory that showcases real-world landing pages from YC-backed startups. It’s perfect for:

• Designers looking for inspiration

• Entrepreneurs wanting real examples to iterate on

• Builders who want to launch faster using proven design patterns

Vibe — Real-world landing pages directory

Build, Launch and Grow as quickly as some real-world inspirations.

The idea is to provide top YC-backed startups' landing pages to the SAAS entrepreneurs to help them quickly launch their idea with some real-world inspirations.

SAAS App Designs

Landing page

• Navbar
• Hero section
• Trusted companies section
• Features
• Samples and Demo section
• Subscribe form
• Footer

Explore page

• Search input
• Filter tabs buttons
• Lists all FREE/Paid designs

Buy page

The buy page is for the paid users to unlock all the top 100+ YC landing page designs.

The buy page will show some samples of FREE landing designs, a heading, a description of the benefits of buying PRO and a “Get PRO” button

Payments & Payment page

We will be using Lemon Squeezy to sell our Paid products. Lemon Squeezy is a platform for easily listing digital products online.

Lemon Squeezy depends on the Stripe account and uses Stripe verification to connect with your bank account

Lemon squeezy has alternatives

• Stripe
• Paypal
• Gumroad

Payment flow is quite easy in our case

• User lands on buy page
• Click on the “Get PRO” button
• Modal will open to showcase the benefits of PRO, and finally, make the payment button
• User clicks and redirects to the Lemon Squeezy to complete the payments and buy the PRO or paid version product

Integration Lemon Squeezy Payments

Listing a product on Lemon Squeezy

• Create an account on Lemon Squeezy
• Connect the bank account by entering details
• Click on “Add product”
• Enter the product details such as banner image (up to 10 images are allowed as banner), thumbnails, title, description, and price
• Add final content that the user will receive once the payment is successful, in our case, that is a folder with 100 YC-backed startup landing page design images.

In our case,

• First, we will create a zip folder of all the top 100 or recently backed 100 Y Combinator-backed startup landing pages
• Zip all designs together, add and upload the zip to the Lemon Squeezy product content
• Integrate the lemon squeezy product on our app using the payment page link

A zip folder is a very compressed file; it hardly takes time to download and upload, making it a robust solution for selling 100+ images.

Below are the images of our product listed on Lemon Squeezy.

In the Files section to add our product we will be selling to the user, and in our case, we have listed the YC landing design PDF containing 100 images of all startups.

Getting Started with Anima & Anima AI playground

Anima provide 2 solutions for software developers

• Anima Figma plugin
• Anima AI Playground

By their name, one can easily understand the purpose and application.

Figma plugin: Helps to convert figma designs into React code of your choice

AI code editor: Helps to develop a full-fledged app using an AI chatbot in the browser.

Vibing in the Anima Figma plugin & Anima AI Playground

• Once our design is ready, we will convert the figma frame into React code with one click.
• Anima figma plugin will create the React code or code of your choice of framework in a few seconds.
• Redirect to the web browser that provides an AI chatbot to further make changes and develop your idea using AI LLM models.

As shown below, I am using a figma plugin to generate React code for our SAAS app home page design.

Click on “Prompt in Playground” to open Anima AI playground, where we will chat with AI to make further changes and develop our full-stack SAAS app.

You can select multiple frames as well, and Anima will generate the responsive code templates joining the frames.

Frames that are joined via events such as onClick, onTap in the figma app will be linked similarly in the React code, and Anima does that perfectly well.

For example, shown in the video below, we have the Explore and Buy Pro button on the home page or the landing page.

When clicked, the user will be redirected to the explore and buy page or the next frame.

A similar pattern is followed, and Anima AI writes code to make sure multiple frames can be converted into React code to finally ensure that full-stack app development can be handled by AI soon in the future.

Developing a Multi-page Application

Use a frame-by-frame AI code generator to develop all other multiple pages in the app, and make sure to link them.

**Prompt: Add explore, buy and subscribe pages and link them to all pages as well as buttons present inside the navbar, body and footer.

In the image below, I’ve instructed or provided a prompt with an image telling AI to generate a new page in the existing app.

Move ahead and repeat the same process for other frames or pages, such as the buy page, the buy model, the subscribe page and any other pages if needed.

Handling responsiveness

Anima AI playground has a responsive checker or inspector to view the website on multiple devices and handle responsiveness in the app.

Further improvements for each device's phones, desktops can be handled easily via the prompts.

For example, we want the navbar to stick to the top or bottom for phone devices or smaller devices and be relative in larger devices. In that case, the following can be a good prompt

**Prompt: Handle responsiveness for the navbar, making it sticky for small-sized devices, phones and relative in position for large desktops and tablets.

Handling Errors

In the era of AI, most of the AI code editors are facing problems with handling errors and prompt engineering itself teaches us the way to handle errors by the LLM.

One of the best ways to handle errors is to supply the exact errors to the AI by simply copying and pasting.

Sometimes, AI will solve the errors, and sometimes it needs more tricks to get to the cause of the error to help AI solve it.

A few more tricks to solve the errors are as follows

• Google the exact error and find the blueprint of solutions in the prompt, and provide that to the AI
• Add the last changes as the explanation along with the errors in the prompt, and ask the AI model to solve it

These are the basic first-principle thinking. One who provides the exact problem to the AI will get the accurate answer to it; it all boils down to prompt engineering.

Adding payments

The next part is to add payment to the “Buy PRO” button in the buy page modal.

Since we are using Lemon Squeezy, we will ask AI itself to integrate the Lemon Squeezy product payment into our website.

We have 2 ways to integrate payments

• Add a lemon squeezy or third-party product payment link directly to our website
• Add the payment integration services using API keys from the third-party (lemon squeezy in our case) and integrate the SDK to add payments

The image shown below is our product URL link that we can directly add to our website. One can see we have 2 ways to add, as shown, checkout URLs or checkout overlays.

We will use both and test them individually with the Anima AI code editor.

Prompt in the AI playground to integrate the lemon squeezy checkout product URL directly to our website

Once that is handled, we will get the payment redirect linked in our app, shown below.

Integrating Firebase (Database)

Vibe coding concepts emerge because chatting with AI and creating apps is a fun and creative process. Writing english is a funny way with some authentic steps, or a story is another style of prompting to AI, as shown

Prompt: “It’s time to do some backend integration. We’ll be setting up Firebase Firestore to collect subscribers’ emails and usernames. First, import Firebase keys from your .env file (I’ll add those keys later). Go ahead and: add Firebase keys to .env, initialize Firebase using those keys, and finally, add a method to store subscriber data in Firestore.”

We’ll be using Firebase’s Firestore—Google’s serverless NoSQL database—to store the email and username of each subscriber. While Firebase offers more features like Google login or email/password authentication, we’re keeping it simple for now and only storing subscriber info.

Why? Having access to user emails lets us send updates, market our product, or build a community around what we’re making. From a business perspective, collecting emails is a smart first step.

Steps to integrate Firebase:

1. Add Firebase keys to your .env file
   
   (Get them from the Firebase Console—if it’s your first time, just create a project and copy the config keys.)

2. Import and initialise Firebase using the env variables

3. Add a function to save subscriber data (email + username) into Firestore

This prompt-style approach is great because it mirrors the actual dev flow when integrating Firebase. Once you’ve done the setup, your app is connected to Firebase and can successfully store subscriber data.

Moving ahead with the last step

Final Polishing

Sometimes, AI fumbles/hallucinates, although we have covered the error handling section, AI can still give unexpected results.

A few final polishing requirements are covered as follows

• Handle responsiveness for the website
• Write test cases for the subscription and buy button
• Improve UI and themes for each of the pages

Each of them comes with its respective prompts as given below

• “Make sure all components and layouts adjust smoothly across screen sizes. Use media queries, utility-first CSS frameworks like Tailwind, or responsive design components from your UI library. Ensure text scales appropriately, images are fluid, and padding/margins adapt for smaller screens.”
• “Develop comprehensive test cases for the subscription and buy button functionalities. Ensure you cover edge cases and handle negative scenarios, such as invalid input or network failures. Use a testing framework like Jest, Mocha, or Cypress, and include both unit and integration tests.”
• “Enhance the UI and themes across all pages by incorporating a coherent design system and style guide. Use contemporary UI libraries, design tokens, and consistent typography, colour palettes, and component styles. Ensure each page reflects the overall brand identity and provides an engaging user experience.”

Keep iterating with prompts to get better and the desired results.

And that’s it for our SAAS app, we will end our blog here with a conclusion.

Final Product Demo

As a developer, it’s not enough to have the source code and an AI code editor.

We need to publish, download or push to github to showcase our product.

For that, Anima AI provides the following options

• Push the code to github (Connect Github)
• Download code
• Save it for further customisation
• Reset to bring back to the last change
• Publish (To live demo link for showcasing and testing the app)

And that’s the wrap for our SAAS app development using Anima AI and figma plugin.

We published our app using the Publish button shown in the above image, which deployed our app on the demo link.

https://twilight-king-0414.dev.animaapp.io/

Conclusion

Anima provides a Figma plugin and an Anima AI playground to build apps using AI just by prompting

The following are the steps we have followed to build and launch our app

• Design an SAAS idea with multiple pages/frames in figma
• Anima figma plugin easily converts the frames into an app and redirects to Anima AI the playground right in the figma app
• Anima AI playground helps to customise the app further, add database and payments links and improve the entire website experience and look
• Anima AI playground provides a few more features to publish, push the code to github, download the source code, and your choice.
• Anima AI have made full-stack development fun & one can easily convert figma designs into an app.

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That’s it for today

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