Have an app idea but no idea how to build it? This course takes you from a blank folder to a live web app with real user accounts, a real database and photo storage, in about two and a half hours.
You’ll use Claude Code to do the building. You describe what you want in plain English, review what Claude proposes, and steer it as it writes the code. GitHub keeps every version of your work backed up. AWS Amplify publishes the app online and updates it automatically whenever you approve a change.
Most beginner tutorials stop at a demo that lives on your laptop. This one takes you all the way to the way professional teams ship software. You’ll have a private dev site for safe experiments and a live main site for real users. You’ll test changes on development branches, promote the good ones to main, and roll back a bad release without losing your work. Your back end is real AWS infrastructure (login, database and file storage), and it’s defined in your project files, so it’s backed up along with everything else.
Along the way we build Recipe Box, a private recipe collection where each person signs up, logs in and manages their own recipes, tags and photos. Then you’ll get a prompt library and a build-your-own template, so you can apply the same steps to your own idea.
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 14 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Course Introduction3 ItemsWelcome to the AWS Amplify with Claude course on homegeek.tv! This course is continually being updated and improved. There is an opportunity for you to provide feedback and/or message the content creator if you have suggestions or find an error in the course. Each section is broken down in to bite-sized chunks so that you can review each section if you get stuck.
- Getting Started4 ItemsBefore we build anything, you need three accounts: Claude, GitHub, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Each one has a job. Claude writes your app, GitHub stores and backs up your work, and AWS publishes your app and runs the login, database and photo storage behind it. In this section I’ll walk you through creating each account, one screen at a time, so you can follow along even if you’ve never signed up for a developer service before. Set aside about an hour, and pause the video whenever you need to. A few things will make this go smoothly. Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan, because the free plan doesn’t include it. GitHub is free. AWS is free to sign up for, but it asks for a credit card and a phone number to verify your identity. Verification can take a little while, so we’ll start AWS first and let it finish in the background. You won’t be charged just for having an account, and in the next module we’ll set a budget alert so there are no surprises later.
- What is a CI/CD Pipeline2 Items
- Setting Up The Environment5 Items
