Build with Claude Code: From zero to deployed apps with AI-assisted development - Softcover

Taeho Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1807781798 ISBN 13: 9781807781798

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

1. My First Vibe Coding
2. Maximizing AI's Potential with Effective Prompts
3. Getting Started with Claude Code
4. Practical Use of Claude Code
5. Systematic Development and Management Through Game Creation
6. Giving Claude Code Wings with APIs
7. Building a Development Team with Claude Code AI Agents
8. Extending Claude Code with MCP, Skills, and Plugins

About this title

About the Author

Taeho Jo is an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he applies deep learning to Alzheimer's disease research, from discovering genetic variants to analyzing brain imaging and biomarkers. He created SWAT and a family of models including Deep-Block, TrUE-Net, and DuAL-Net. He holds a PhD in computational biology. He is also the developer of AlphaGenome MCP, an open-source tool that connects the AlphaGenome genomics model with Claude Code and Claude Desktop, allowing scientists to run complex analyses using plain language. Before entering academia, he worked as a software engineer at Macromedia Korea, now part of Adobe. His Deep Learning for Everyone has been a bestseller and university textbook in Korea for years, while his guide to Claude Code reached number one in the IT category at major bookstores across the country. Claude Code in Action is the English edition of that book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1807781798
• ISBN 13: 9781807781798
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408