Building a Full-Stack Habit Tracker with Claude Code - Part 2: Polish, Testing & Deployment Taking the habit tracker from MVP to production-ready with categories, analytics, comprehensive testing, and Vercel deployment In [Part 1], we built a fully functional habit tracker MVP in about 6-8 hours using Claude Code as our AI pair programmer. We had: ✅ Basic CRUD operations for habits ✅ Date-based
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