AI is such a massive market right now that everyone wants a piece of it. Even Canva, the popular design platform best known for drag-and-drop graphics, has jumped into the AI race by releasing its own version of a code generator during its Canva Create 2025 event.
But why would a design-first platform even offer a code generation tool?
It seems out of place at first. I had the same reaction when I saw the announcement.
In this guide, I will show you how Canva’s code generator work and build an interactive web app as an example.
But before I show you an example and discuss about why they’re doing this, let’s talk about what this new Code Generator tool is and how it actually works.