Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development

Duration: 2 days
Labs: Yes
Language: English
Level: Intermediate

In this two-day course you’ll use Claude Code to create a desktop application, refactor it into multi-tier application, and then migrate the application to a microservices architecture. You’ll extend Claude Code with skills, tools, hooks, and plugins. The focus of this course is leveraging Claude Code to create reliable, secure, maintainable, extendable, and understandable applications.

Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training Delivery Methods

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Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training Information

Course Benefits
- Use Claude Code both to create new applications and extend, enhance, and modify existing applications
- Manage Claude Code sessions and context to get optimal performance
- Extend your Claude Code environment with skills to reduce your workload
- Add new functionality to Claude Code MCP Servers, including GitHub
- Have Claude Code build tests that ensure your application works correctly
- Leverage hooks, goals, and loops to enhance Claude Code’s ability to generate code
- Work with Claude Code in a variety of platforms and languages from Node.js to .NET
Prerequisites

Some coding experience is helpful for some topics in this course about extending Claude Code.

Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training Outline

Learning Objectives

Module 1: Creating Your First Claude Code Application

Working with the Claude Code App, CLI, and Extension
Understanding the Claude Code development cycle
Integrating software maintenance
Architecting your application in Plan mode
Enhancing Plan mode
Creating a single-tier application

Lab 1.1: Starting your IDE and Configuring Claude Code

Lab 1.2: Creating a desktop application that accesses a database

Module 2: Refactoring a Distributed Application

Configuring your Claude Code environment
Refactoring your application
Building Claude Code context
Adding MCP Servers
Performing exploratory testing with Claude Code and Playwright
Automating testing
Creating a multi-application

Lab 2.1: Create a Web application with a Web Service

Lab 2.2: Refactoring an existing application to use the Web Service

Lab 2.3: Adding, executing and reviewing tests with Playwright

Module 3: Extending Claude Code

Adding new skills to Claude Code
Creating Custom Skills
Adding Claude Code Hooks
Leveraging Claude Code Loops
Integrating authentication

Lab 3.1: Adding a skill

Lab 3.2: Creating a skill

Lab 3.3: Leveraging Loops

Module 4: Supporting Your Application

Exploit specs, plans, and extended thinking to handle sophisticated requests
Orchestrate complex workflows with agents and use subagents
Managing your session
Enhancing the UI
Adding application monitoring and including notifications
Adding Cloud Resources in a microservice applications

Lab 4.1: Generating a Queue with Claude Code

Lab 4.2: Refactoring the application to write to a queue

Module 5: Final Steps

Integrating images
Generate documentation and architecture plans

Lab 5.1: Building a better UI

Lab 5.2: Generating documentation

Commercial Pricing

20 930 kr

2-day instructor-led training course
Hands-on learning labs included
After-course coaching available

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Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training FAQs

Claude acts as an AI development partner rather than just a code editor or autocomplete tool. Instead of manually writing every component, developers can describe requirements in natural language and have Claude generate code, explain design decisions, create tests, refactor applications, and generate documentation. Claude can also maintain context across large projects, helping developers work at a higher level of abstraction while still retaining control over the final implementation.

Claude Code can significantly accelerate the software development lifecycle by reducing time spent on repetitive tasks such as code generation, debugging, testing, documentation, and refactoring. It enables developers to focus more on architecture, business requirements, and problem-solving while allowing Claude to handle much of the implementation work. Organisations also benefit from improved consistency, faster onboarding of new developers, and increased productivity across development teams.

No. Claude Code enhances developer capabilities rather than replacing them. Successful use of Claude still requires an understanding of software engineering principles, architecture, security, testing, and code review. Developers must be able to evaluate Claude's output, identify potential issues, provide effective guidance, and ensure solutions meet business and technical requirements. The most successful developers will combine strong engineering skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with AI-assisted development tools.

Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development

Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training Delivery Methods

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Leveraging Claude Code in Application Development Training Outline

Learning Objectives

Module 3: Extending Claude Code

Live Instructor 20 930 kr

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