Teach Non-Devs to Ship Apps with These 2 CLIs
Discover how two powerful command-line interfaces enable non-developers to build and deploy applications without coding experience, streamlining the app
Someone figured out how to teach non-technical people to ship apps with Claude Code - the trick is telling it exactly which CLI tools to use upfront.
The two commands that change everything:
npm install -g vercel # Vercel CLI (deployment)Windows users grab gh from cli.github.com instead.
Without these, Claude assumes you’ll handle Git and deployment manually. With them installed, you just say “use the GitHub CLI to push this to a new private repo” or “use the Vercel CLI to deploy this” and Claude does it.
The workflow becomes: plan what you want, let Claude build it, paste screenshots (Ctrl+V) to show what needs fixing, then push and deploy with plain English instructions.
Works great for anything without a database - landing pages, calculators, portfolios, quizzes. Both tools need free accounts, but Claude walks through the auth process (shows you a code, you paste it in your browser).
Pretty wild that just installing two CLIs removes the entire Git/deployment learning curve.
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