Building a Strong Foundation

Part of the Vibe Coding: Prototype to Production course

In the last lesson you looked honestly at the project you built in the fundamentals course and wrote down where it would break under real use. This lesson fixes the very first weakness on that list: a prototype that only knows how to run in one place, on your screen, with everything glued together in a pile. You will give the project a clean structure and move its settings into predictable, safe places.

Project structure just means how your files are arranged into folders, so that related things sit together and anyone (including the AI) can guess where a given piece lives. Early prototypes often grow into one big heap: everything in a single folder, one enormous file doing five jobs. It works until you need to change one thing and cannot find it. ...