Generate a .gitignore Tailored to Your Tech Stack
Your default .gitignore is probably missing half the things it should ignore — OS junk, editor artefacts, build caches. Tell Claude your exact stack and it'll write one that actually covers everything.
Generate a comprehensive .gitignore for a Laravel 11 project
using Vite, Docker, and PhpStorm as the IDE. Include OS files
for macOS and Windows.
Claude will produce a well-organised file with sections for each layer of your stack — framework files, editor configs, build output, environment files, and OS noise — with comments explaining each section.
The same approach works for any combination:
Write a .gitignore for a Next.js 14 project using Vercel
deployment, Prisma ORM, and VS Code.
You can also paste your existing .gitignore and ask Claude to audit it: "What am I missing for a project using these technologies?" It will flag the gaps and explain why each entry matters.
A proper .gitignore takes five minutes to generate and saves years of accidental commits — let Claude do it for you.
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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.