A 6-Week Hands-On Course for Technical Professionals. No traditional coding experience required.
Building a full-stack web application with Claude Code
Transform your ideas into production-ready applications using AI-assisted development powered by Claude Code.
Course Overview
Over six weeks, you'll go from zero to a fully deployed, production-ready MVP; while mastering Claude Code fundamentals and the agentic coding paradigm. You'll choose from curated project options - each designed to teach essential patterns while creating something genuinely useful. Your final product will include user authentication, dashboards, third-party integrations, admin controls, and deployment on real infrastructure.
What You'll Learn
- Setting up a professional development environment
- Designing robust and scalable application architecture
- Building tech specs and product requirement documents
- Creating elegant and polished user interfaces
- Implementing security, authentication, and access controls
- Deploying and monitoring production applications
Who Should Attend
- Founders ready to build their own MVP
- Product Managers wanting to prototype and validate faster
- Business leaders who need a custom workflow or capability
- Engineering managers exploring AI-assisted workflows
- Cloud & DevOps engineers building custom tooling
- Application and infrastructure security professionals
Course Curriculum
Foundations & Environment Setup
Master Claude Code fundamentals. Set up and configure your development environment. Learn common patterns and workflows.
Session 1: Claude Code Fundamentals
- -The Claude Code mental model and agentic coding paradigm
- -Context window management and token optimization
- -Effective prompting patterns for code generation
- -The CLAUDE.md file: purpose, structure, best practices
Session 2: Development Environment & Workflows
- -Complete local development environment setup
- -Git workflows for AI-assisted development
- -Sub-agent definition and MCP configuration
- -Deploy a 'Hello World' application
Architecture & Implementation Planning
Define your architecture. Build a comprehensive product requirements document. Develop a detailed implementation plan.
Session 1: Plan Mode & Product Requirements
- -Researching and defining system architecture
- -Creating a technical specification with Plan Mode
- -Developing PRD including user stories and acceptance criteria
- -Architecture patterns: monolith vs. services, API design, data flow
Session 2: Implementation Planning
- -Develop phased implementation plan
- -Supabase setup and database schema design
- -API contract design: endpoints, request/response schemas
- -Configuring third party integrations and data sources
Backend Development & Data Engineering
Deploy your database schema. Build and test APIs. Integrate external services and data sources.
Session 1: Database & Data Modeling
- -Supabase schema implementation: tables, relationships, constraints
- -Database security: row-level, multi-tenant isolation
- -Advanced features: indexes, functions and triggers
- -Hashing and encryption
Session 2: API Development & Integrations
- -API development: FastAPI or Next.js API routes
- -Request validation and authentication
- -Third-party API integration patterns
- -API testing with Claude: generating test cases
Frontend Development & User Experience
Build and test polished user interfaces. Create intuitive dashboards and rich data visualizations. Implement user authentication.
Session 1: UI Development with Claude
- -Component architecture: atomic design principles
- -Building with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui
- -The screenshot-iterate workflow for UI polish
- -Building robust UI tests using Playwright MCP, Claude for Chrome
Session 2: User Authentication & Authorization
- -Supabase Auth: email/password, OAuth providers
- -Building login, signup, and password reset flows
- -Protected routes and middleware
- -Role-based access control (RBAC) patterns
Operations & Administration
Build admin dashboards and control plane. Implement monitoring and observability. Extend automated test coverage.
Session 1: Admin Dashboard & Control Plane
- -Admin dashboard patterns: user lists, detail views, actions
- -User management: create, update, disable, impersonate
- -Feature flags and application settings
- -Audit logging: tracking changes and user actions
Session 2: Testing & Monitoring
- -Extend and enhance unit, integration, and E2E tests
- -Logging strategies configuration
- -Error / anomaly detection and notification
- -Monitoring and observability best practices
Security, Polish & Demo Day
Optimize your application. Add final polish. Present your completed MVP to the cohort and celebrate what you've built.
Session 1: Performance & Final Polish
- -Security audit and remediations
- -Database performance review and query optimization
- -Generate architecture, developer and API documentation
- -Accessibility basics: ARIA, keyboard navigation, contrast
Session 2: Demo Day
- -Final deployment checklist and verification
- -Student presentations (5-7 minutes each)
- -Q&A and feedback from instructor and peers
- -Retrospective
What's Included
- Dedicated, knowledgeable instructor with deep experience
- 2 live sessions per week with real-time instruction and Q&A
- Weekly office hours for 1:1 guidance and troubleshooting
- Private Slack community for questions and collaboration
- Comprehensive course materials with templates and examples
- A deployed, working application you built yourself
Prerequisites
You don't need to be a developer, but should be comfortable with:
- Using the command line/terminal for basic operations
- HTTP, API, database, and web application concepts and terminology
- Basic Git operations (clone, commit, push)
- Claude Code Pro or Max (recommended) subscription
Technology Stack
You'll work with modern, production-grade technologies used by leading startups and enterprises:
About the Instructor
John Sasser
Engineer, CTO, and founder with 25+ years building, scaling, and securing mission-critical and enterprise software. Former Security Architect at AWS, and SRE Manager at Apple. Army veteran.
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