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Claude Code for Fullstack Development: The 3 Things You Actually Need

vincanger on February 13, 2026

How Can I Use Claude Code Effectively? There's a lot of hype around vibe coding with Claude Code. The good news is that it's warranted....
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Mahima Arora

This resonates hard. The biggest productivity gain I got from AI coding tools was not from fancy multi-agent setups but from just having a well-structured CLAUDE.md and letting it understand the project context properly. Most teams I have worked with skip that and then wonder why the output is garbage.

The one thing I would add is that for fullstack work, having clear API contracts (typed schemas, OpenAPI specs) makes the AI output way more reliable. Without that, it hallucinates endpoints and response shapes constantly. Simple guardrails beat complex workflows every time.

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yeah and the opinionated frameworks take care of a lot of that for you!

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egeindie

solid advice. i've been building two SaaS products with Go + React and honestly the biggest unlock was exactly what you described — giving the AI enough context upfront instead of fighting it afterwards.

the llms.txt point is especially underrated. i started adding one to my own projects and the difference in AI-generated code quality is noticeable. less hallucinated endpoints, fewer wrong assumptions about the stack.

one thing i'd add: even without a fancy framework, just having a well-maintained AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md with your project conventions goes a long way. the AI doesn't need to be opinionated if your docs are.

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true! it's one of the reasons I put the llms.txt urls, along with conventions, in my claude.md.

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Mykola Kondratiuk

honestly the debugging visibility thing is huge. I've been vibe coding a security scanner and half the time I was just copy pasting errors into Claude. then I set up proper logging and it's like night and day - the agent can actually see what broke instead of me trying to explain it. the tech stack point is underrated too, using something with clear conventions saves so much prompt engineering

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vincanger Wasp

totally!

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Matija Sosic Wasp

Great work on this. I was looking for something that isn't Gas Town but still gets me 80% there.

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vincanger Wasp

nice. glad it was helpful!

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Carlos Precioso

The best framework for spec-driven workflows 🔥

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vincanger Wasp

<3

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Mihovil Ilakovac Wasp

On the topic of docs and HTML, Cloudflare introduced automatic conversion to Markdown for agents: blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-a...

Great stuff Vinny!

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vincanger Wasp

that looks awesome!

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Franjo Mindek • Edited

Let's gooo.
Also we are missing the 4th point:

  • Money dollas to pay the Anthropic bills.
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🤣