August 2026
Intermediate
408 pages
8h 13m
English
Overview
Turn ideas into working software with Claude Code. Build and deploy real apps while learning prompting, APIs, AI agents, MCP, Skills, plugins, and the practices that make AI-assisted development work.
Key Features
- Build nine hands-on projects, progressing from simple web apps to AI-powered, database-connected applications
- Turn prompts into repeatable workflows with CLAUDE.md, commands, agents, and MCP
- Go beyond generated code to test, improve, and deploy applications that people can actually use
Book Description
Build with Claude Code shows you how to turn ideas into working applications through conversation, experimentation, and hands-on building. No prior programming experience is required.
You'll start with a simple webpage before creating a marketing portfolio, a handwriting recognition program, a to-do app, and a quiz game. As your projects grow, you'll learn to write effective prompts, manage context, verify AI-generated content, work with CLAUDE.md, and create custom commands that turn repetitive tasks into reusable workflows.
You'll then connect AI models through APIs and build FridgeChef, an app combining image recognition and text generation. Next, you'll create specialized Claude Code agents and assemble them into an AI development team with roles spanning product, frontend, backend, QA, and more.
Finally, you'll extend Claude Code with MCP servers, Skills, and plugins, work with GitHub and Playwright, and use Vercel and Supabase to deploy a database-backed application.
By the end, you'll have something more useful than coding theory. A practical way to take your next idea from prompt to deployed software.
What you will learn
- Understand AI-assisted development and Claude Code workflows
- Write structured prompts that produce better results
- Manage projects with CLAUDE.md and custom commands
- Build AI-powered applications using external APIs
- Create specialized agents and AI development teams
- Connect tools and services through MCP servers
- Extend Claude Code using Skills and plugins
- Deploy database-backed apps with Vercel and Supabase
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone with an idea for an app who wants to build it with AI, even without prior programming experience. Product managers, engineers, marketers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and other professionals will learn a practical way to turn ideas into working software. Early-career developers will also discover how Claude Code, agents, MCP, Skills, plugins, and AI-assisted workflows can accelerate development. Readers with coding experience can move quickly through the early projects and focus on the advanced workflows.
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