Web Development 🤝 AI Coding 🔥 | HTML, CSS, JS, Git, Cursor IDE
Learn how to build and deploy a single-page website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—plus Git, GitHub, Node.js, and an AI-powered code editor—all in under 15 minutes! 🤩 We’ll focus on skills that count as real experience in the eyes of employers, so you can start leveling up your tech career right away.
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In this video, you’ll see how to:
Set up your GitHub repo and use Git for version control
Install Node.js and Git to power your local environment
Use Cursor (an AI code editor) for lightning-fast coding
Host your finished site on GitHub Pages for a public portfolio
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If you’d like a classic, non-AI intro to web dev, check the link below for our “trial by fire” version:
• Trial by Fire v2.0
0:00 – Introduction & Overview
0:17 – What You’ll Learn (HTML, CSS, JS, Source Control, IDEs)
1:05 – Why an AI-First Approach?
1:51 – Setting Up Your Environment (Git, Node, GitHub)
2:36 – Creating & Cloning Your Repository
5:31 – Generating Code with AI (Cursor)
9:50 – Understanding Your Code & Deploying on GitHub Pages
Main Prompt:
```
act as an expert web developer.
make a vanilla HTML blog in a single page.
the blog title should be "John's Coding Blog"
let there be two articles with a title, post date, and body copy. Lorem ipsum is fine for the body copy. Let the titles be "Temp Article 1" and "What I learned from v0". Let each article have a trash icon which allows me to delete the article. Deletion requires me to double-confirm using a confirm prompt.
let the top nav stick on scroll and include scroll to top and scroll to bottom buttons.
at the bottom of the page, after the articles section, let there be a "Draft New Article" button. Clicking this should reveal a form where I can enter title, body content, and submit. The article should be preppended to the top of the articles section because it is new. Do not submit this data to a web server on form submit. Instead, save it to localStorage, and also load this data on page load so that I can refresh the page and retain my new articles.
ensure the site is mobile friendly, accessible, uses semantic HTML, and includes SEO metadata.
```