Now I Understand Why Everyone Is Raving About Claude Code

Last Thursday to Saturday I dove into Nate Herkelman's videos on building n8n automation workflows using Claude Code and had Claude Chat teach me the fundamentals for the following:

  • Visual Studio Code

  • Bash Terminal commands

  • Claude Terminal

  • Git and GitHub

  • What goes into project files: bashrc, env, gitignore, CLAUDE.md, scripts

  • Setting up a script to automate the creation of files for each new project

  • Connecting to MCP servers and skills

Time to apply it...

I started putting this knowledge into practice by connecting Claude Code to an existing n8n workflow and directed it to review, optimise, change the date display in an email, and then add a new Telegram node to the end to send me an alert message at the end of each run.

Claude Code asked me for the n8n instance URL and API Key, gave me instructions for how to create a Telegram bot and get my Chat ID, and asked some other questions before completing the task.

The result was flawless and a massive time saving.

From now on, I'll planning and building my n8n workflows in Claude Code and will start building more ambitious projects (web apps) to push my learning further!

Mark Reynolds

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