Ask Claude to Scaffold a pnpm Workspace Monorepo
Setting up a pnpm monorepo from scratch means juggling pnpm-workspace.yaml, per-package package.json files, shared tsconfig.json paths, and build order. Claude can generate the whole scaffold from a description.
Set up a pnpm workspace monorepo with three packages:
- apps/web (Next.js 14 app)
- packages/ui (shared React component library, TypeScript)
- packages/utils (shared TypeScript utilities, no framework)
Include a root tsconfig.json with path aliases for each package.
Add a shared ESLint config in packages/eslint-config.
Claude will generate the pnpm-workspace.yaml, each package.json with correct workspace protocol references ("@myapp/ui": "workspace:*"), and the tsconfig path aliases so imports like @myapp/ui/Button resolve correctly.
For build orchestration, ask Claude to add Turborepo:
Add Turborepo to the monorepo above.
Create a turbo.json with a build pipeline that compiles packages/utils
and packages/ui before apps/web.
Add a root build:all script and a dev script that runs all apps in parallel.
Claude understands Turborepo's task dependency model and will configure dependsOn and outputs correctly so caching works.
Monorepo setup in minutes — describe your packages and let Claude wire it together.
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Set up Claude Code as an automated reviewer in your CI pipeline — on every pull request, it reads the diff, checks for bugs, security issues, missing tests, and convention violations, then posts its findings as a PR comment. Your human reviewers get a head start because the obvious issues are already flagged before they look.
Before deploying, tell Claude to read your project — migrations, environment variables, queue workers, scheduled tasks, caching, third-party integrations — and generate a deployment checklist that's specific to your app. Not a generic "did you run migrations?" list, but one that knows YOUR infrastructure and catches the things YOUR deploy can break.
Instead of writing a README from memory or copying a template, tell Claude to read your project and generate one that's actually accurate — real setup instructions from your config, real architecture from your directory structure, real API examples from your routes, and real prerequisites from your dependency files.