I’ve been using Cursor with claude 3.5 & 3.7 nonstop for the past three weeks—admittedly not a huge amount of time in development terms, but I’d like to share some initial insights and see what everyone else has discovered. Here are my key findings so far:
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Front-End Development
- Surprisingly, Claude has excelled in working with Astro.
- I tried Next.js and a few other frameworks, but Astro seemed the easiest for Claude to maintain and develop within.
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Back-End Setup
- Claude sometimes struggles with Python virtual environments—forgetting to activate or deactivate them, which leads to unnecessary cleanup.
- To avoid these complications, I switched to using Cloudflare Workers for the backend.
- Initially, Flask worked fine, but it eventually caused odd issues in the project.
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Database Choices
- Both PrismaDB and PostgreSQL integrate well when used with Supabase.
- Performance has met expectations in my limited testing.
What languages and frameworks are you working with, and how has your experience been so far?