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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition
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A bit of setup comes first, and it pays off on every prompt afterward.
If you have not installed Claude Code yet, follow the installation instructions in the Technical requirements section above. Once installed, create an empty project directory and start Claude Code inside it:
mkdir fullstack-ai && cd fullstack-ai
claude
We're starting from an empty directory, so there's no existing codebase for Claude Code to analyze. We'll create our own CLAUDE.md manually. In an existing project, you'd run /init to have Claude Code scan the codebase and generate a starting CLAUDE.md for you, but here we know exactly what we want.
CLAUDE.md is read by Claude Code at the start of every conversation. It gives the model persistent context that it cannot infer from code alone. Think of it as onboarding documentation, but for your AI assistant instead of a new team member...