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Claude Code is smart. But it does not know your project. It does not know your coding style, your build commands, or your project structure. That is what CLAUDE.md fixes. This is Article 6 in the Claude AI — From Zero to Power User series. You should have completed Article 3: Claude Code CLI before this article. By the end of this article, you will know how to write CLAUDE.md files that make Claude Code work like a teammate who already knows your codebase. ...

In the previous tutorial, you learned how to test Go code. Now it is time to add authentication to your API. Middleware is the standard way to handle cross-cutting concerns like authentication, logging, and CORS. What is Middleware? Middleware is a function that runs before (or after) your handler. It sits between the request and the handler: Request → Middleware 1 → Middleware 2 → Handler → Response Common uses for middleware: ...

In the previous tutorial, you built REST APIs with Gin. Now it is time to test your code. Go has a powerful testing framework built into the standard library — no external dependencies needed. Testing in Go is simple by design. Test files live next to the code they test, and you run them with one command: go test. Your First Test Create a file called math.go: package math func Add(a, b int) int { return a + b } func Divide(a, b int) (int, error) { if b == 0 { return 0, fmt.Errorf("cannot divide by zero") } return a / b, nil } Now create math_test.go in the same directory: ...

In the previous tutorial, you built HTTP servers with the standard net/http package. That works great for simple servers. But as your API grows, you need better routing, input validation, and middleware support. Gin is the most popular Go web framework with over 80,000 GitHub stars. It is fast, well-documented, and used in production by thousands of companies. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build REST APIs with Gin. ...

In the previous tutorial, you learned advanced error handling patterns. Now it is time to build something real — an HTTP server. Go has a powerful HTTP server in the standard library. No framework needed. The net/http package gives you everything for building web servers and REST APIs. Many production Go services use only the standard library. Your First HTTP Server package main import ( "fmt" "net/http" ) func helloHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, World!") } func main() { http.HandleFunc("/hello", helloHandler) fmt.Println("Server starting on :8080") err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Server error:", err) } } Run it: ...

Every pull request in your repo should be reviewed. But manual code reviews take time — often 2-4 hours per PR. And reviewers miss things when they are tired or rushed. AI code review tools read every PR automatically and leave comments in minutes. Not replacing human reviewers — augmenting them. The AI catches the obvious bugs, the human reviewer focuses on architecture and business logic. Here is how to set it up on GitHub. Three options — from easiest to most customizable. ...

In Go Tutorial #4, you learned the basics of error handling — the error interface and the if err != nil pattern. Now it is time to go deeper. Real applications need more than basic error checks. You need to know what went wrong, where it went wrong, and how to handle different errors differently. Go gives you tools for all of this. Error Wrapping When a function calls another function and gets an error, you should add context before returning it. Use fmt.Errorf with the %w verb to wrap errors: ...

In the previous tutorial, you learned about channels. Now you will learn how to work with multiple channels at the same time using select, how to cancel operations with context, and some powerful concurrency patterns. These are the tools that make Go concurrency practical for real applications. The select Statement select lets you wait on multiple channel operations at the same time. It blocks until one of the channels is ready: ...

In the previous tutorial, you learned about goroutines. But goroutines alone are not enough. They need a way to communicate. That is what channels are for. Channels are typed pipes that connect goroutines. One goroutine sends a value into the channel, another goroutine receives it. Channels make concurrent programming safe and simple. Go has a famous saying: “Do not communicate by sharing memory. Share memory by communicating.” Channels are how you do that. ...

Most developers use Claude Code like a chatbot. Type a question, get an answer, copy the result. That is maybe 20% of what it can do. Here are 5 tricks that change how you work. 1. The ! Prefix — Run Shell Commands Instantly Type ! before any shell command in the chat and Claude runs it immediately — and reads the output. ! git log --oneline -5 ! npm test ! docker ps ! cat package.json Claude sees the result as part of your conversation. No copy-pasting terminal output into the chat. No switching windows. ...