Build and Publish an App with Claude Code (Complete Beginner Guide)

People with zero coding experience are shipping real apps to the App Store right now. No CS degree, no bootcamp: just Claude Code, the right prompts, and a clear mental model of what you're building. I build a budgeting app from an empty folder in the video, the same process I use professionally, and take it all the way to deployment.

You still make the decisions. Claude writes the code, but knowing how to describe what you want and steer it when it drifts is the actual skill.

What's inside

• Install Claude Code and Node.js, and get comfortable in the terminal
• Create an Expo project with npx create-expo@latest
• Prompt Claude Code to build and iterate on a budgeting app
• What the Apple Developer account costs ($100/year) and why you need it
• Deploy without a Mac using Expo's cloud builds, or faster with Xcode

Resources

BookFrom Idea to App Store with Claude Code

The complete guide: the full mental model from idea to the App Store, no code required.