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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition
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This chapter took a different path from the rest of the book. Instead of teaching new concepts, we rebuilt the entire Chapters 8 through 14 project with an AI coding agent and paid attention to how that actually goes, not how the demos make it look.
The parts that mattered were not prompt tricks. A short CLAUDE.md gave the agent persistent context, an MCP server let it read the database directly, hooks kept formatting deterministic, and a written specification turned vague requests into precise targets. From there the work was a sequence of focused prompts, each reviewed before the next, with tests and a final review pass catching what slipped through.
The split between what AI does and what you do is the part to carry forward. It handled boilerplate, repeated patterns, and mechanical refactors well, and it needed a human on the security, architecture, and business-logic calls, which is exactly where the earlier chapters earn their keep. Tools and models will keep changing; that...