Claude Code Course
Deploy Toolkit, GitHub, Vercel and the CLIs
Arun Nagarathanam · 31 Aug 2026 Toolkit · 30 of 72 in this course An exclusive resource for students of Arun's Claude Code Course.
Create the first two before you start the deploy lecture. They take about two minutes total, both are free for personal projects, and neither asks for a credit card.
| Tool | What it does for you | Link |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Holds a copy of your project and its full history online, so it can be shared, backed up, and deployed. A dead laptop becomes an inconvenience rather than a disaster | https://github.com |
| Vercel | Turns your code into a live URL. Your laptop is not a place the internet can visit, so Vercel lends you a computer that is always on and always reachable | https://vercel.com |
| GitHub CLI | Gives your terminal a direct line to your GitHub account, which is what lets Claude create the repository and push for you instead of you clicking through the website | https://cli.github.com |
| Vercel CLI | The same idea for Vercel. Lets Claude link your folder to a project and run the deploy from the terminal | https://vercel.com/docs/cli |
| Netlify and GitHub Pages | The alternatives, if you would rather host somewhere else. They work similarly and the concepts transfer | https://netlify.com and https://pages.github.com |
You do not install either CLI by hand. Ask Claude, using the prompts in the deploy sequence, and it works out the right install for your system. On a Mac that is usually Homebrew, on Windows winget, inside WSL or Linux apt.
Git and GitHub are two different things
This pair confuses people more than any other, and one is not short for the other.
Git is the diary-keeper on your own machine. Every time you change anything, what changed gets written down, along with a line from you saying what you did. One of those saved moments is a commit.
GitHub is a website that holds a copy of that history online, so other people can reach it and so a dead drive is survivable.
You can use Git for years and never open GitHub once.
Commit and push are also two different things
A commit is a snapshot saved on your own machine. A push uploads your saved snapshots to GitHub.
Commit is saving locally. Push is sharing. You can commit ten times before you push once, and only the push reaches the internet.
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