From PowerPoint UI Sketches to Web-Based Applications: Pattern-Driven Code Generation for GIS Dashboard Development Using Knowledge-Augmented LLMs, Context-Aware Visual Prompting, and the React Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08756v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:59:57 GMT
• Title: From PowerPoint UI Sketches to Web-Based Applications: Pattern-Driven Code Generation for GIS Dashboard Development Using Knowledge-Augmented LLMs, Context-Aware Visual Prompting, and the React Framework
• Authors: Haowen Xu, Xiao-Ying Yu,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a knowledgeaugmented code generation framework for complex GIS applications. The framework retrieves software engineering best practices, domain, and advanced technology stacks from a specialized knowledge base.
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• Abstract: Developing web-based GIS applications, commonly known as CyberGIS dashboards, for querying and visualizing GIS data in environmental research often demands repetitive and resource-intensive efforts. While Generative AI offers automation potential for code generation, it struggles with complex scientific applications due to challenges in integrating domain knowledge, software engineering principles, and UI design best practices. This paper introduces a knowledge-augmented code generation framework that retrieves software engineering best practices, domain expertise, and advanced technology stacks from a specialized knowledge base to enhance Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) for front-end development. The framework automates the creation of GIS-based web applications (e.g., dashboards, interfaces) from user-defined UI wireframes sketched in tools like PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator. A novel Context-Aware Visual Prompting method, implemented in Python, extracts layouts and interface features from these wireframes to guide code generation. Our approach leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate front-end code by integrating structured reasoning, software engineering principles, and domain knowledge, drawing inspiration from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). A case study demonstrates the framework's capability to generate a modular, maintainable web platform hosting multiple dashboards for visualizing environmental and energy data (e.g., time-series, shapefiles, rasters) from user-sketched wireframes. By employing a knowledge-driven approach, the framework produces scalable, industry-standard front-end code using design patterns such as Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) and frameworks like React. This significantly reduces manual effort in design and coding, pioneering an automated and efficient method for developing smart city software.

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