Vibe Coding Workflow Templates for Common App Types

Starting every build from a blank prompt is how you get inconsistent results. Most things you'll vibe-code fall into a handful of familiar shapes, and each shape has a reliable order to build it in and a short list of things to check. Here's a reusable skeleton plus a template for the app types that come up most.

The shared skeleton

Every template below is a variation on the same loop — the one that turns one-off prompting into a repeatable workflow:

Describe the outcome — what it is, who it's for, the stack, and the constraints.
Generate a first pass — and expect it to run but not be quite right.
Run it and look — use it, including off the happy path.
Harden — fix failure states, mobile, and security before you call it done.

The templates just change what to specify and what to check for each type.

Template: landing / marketing page

Specify: the sections in order (hero, features, pricing, footer), the tone, and that it must be responsive with proper metadata. Check: phone width first, then title/description and social tags. Layout is where these break — watch for the usual CSS problems, and run the pre-launch review before sharing.

Template: CRUD app / dashboard

Specify: the shape of the data, the actions (create, read, update, delete), and — explicitly — the empty, loading, and error states. Check: what happens with zero items, one item, and a failed request. This type lives or dies on the states AI skips, so attack the edge cases on purpose.

Template: form → data tool

Specify: the fields and their validation rules, and where the data actually goes. Check: that submissions are validated and persisted somewhere real — if it's only saved to localStorage, it isn't shared across devices or users, which is fine for a demo and a trap for anything else.

Template: simple game

Specify: the core loop (input → update → render), the win/lose conditions, and how a round resets. Check: rapid or invalid input, restarting cleanly, and that state fully resets between rounds — games surface double-click and timing bugs faster than anything.

Template: blog / content site

Specify: the content model (posts, tags, dates), and that each page needs its own metadata for search. Check: performance with real images and per-page SEO. Content sites get slow quietly, so watch for the usual performance problems as the content grows.

Where Vibe Coder Playground fits: every template ends the same way — run it and look. The Playground is the "run and look" step: it serves any of these builds locally, lets you exercise the states and edge cases that matter for that type, and audits the result so "harden" is a checklist, not a guess.

Get the free Playground and run every template's build step →