How I Built This Blog with Claude AI (And the Exact Prompts I Used)

Coding with Claude has become so fun and interesting that I've decided to share these adventures on my javablog.com. I've been "vibe" coding on a weekly basis for the past 6 months on personal projects. At work I use github co-pilot selectively to generate tests, translate from English to German or for technical documentation like Plant UML: sequence and class diagrams. I've tried Gemini's CLI - it did well but Claude is better so far.

I generally avoid letting claude run my maven build, npm or ng tools. I've seen that my token allocation would dry up without much to show for it. I set the clear boundary that Claude codes, I test and build. By coding, the coding agent is not writing without me specifying what I want. The specification is generally a series of short questions about trade-offs, best practices and then I have a minimal specification for the next step.

So, in this project I've gone out of my comfort zone and let the coding agent just build it with a minimum amount of inputs. I will share my prompts at the end - and the github repository should be publicly visible: Github - Javablog.com

The Stack

JavaBlog.com runs on the following stack:

• Angular 20 with static site generation (SSG)
• Azure Static Web Apps for hosting
• Cloudflare for DNS and CDN
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD

My Prompts

• "you now should have access to javablog.com... I want to use it to make posts. I think given your talents - we will not use a blogging tool, instead we will just create content. create a claude.md for you to follow"
• "You took it too far. I want an angular application app to live in an app directory. when the github action triggers, it should build the app and deploy it to azure."
• "I want it built from day one to be SEO and AI friendly."
• "use the latest version of angular - its already installed."
• "create a standard gitignore for an angular and claude project. i've already created the file in javablog.com"
• "we need to setup a protocol for you preparing a post for me. It will use my name so I have the final say on content, etc. The first post will be about the blog itself, its structure and our collaboration. first things first, the layout. I want a simple layout. JavaBlog.com is the title of the blog top right. There will only be blog entries which will be listed on the index.html."
• "create a post to show how the first post will look. make it about setting up this blog together with you."
• "This isn't what I specified. Do not abbreviate the first post. It should live at javablog.com/ as well as its seo path."
• "Stick to just the prompts used to build the blogging website. list the prompts in the ul element of home.html including this one."