A Cursor IDE tutorial and React template that makes you a web developer in 1 h (opens in new tab)

I've recently tried it on 1:1 calls with ML/backend engineers and on a workshop at our local hacker space for 20 people and I've got so much positive feedback that I've decided to share it here. If you follow this tutorial closely, it'll help trying to generate both a plain HTML app and a React app with pretty solid results for a little amount of time.

My life has changed 2 months ago since I've discovered the Cursor IDE. I love this product and I'm trying to share that as much as I can. I stopped writing React on my own and I only code using English/Russian now, and much faster.

Disclosure: my codebase is 10k LOC in modern React+TS, your 100k Rust mileage may vary.

I installed and tried it then uninstalled it and went back to vscode. For me the UI was buggy and unintuitive and beyond basic things it was worse and slower than vscode + copilot. I installed it because of the many glowing comments on the internet that use similar language: “this is a game changer”, “honestly, Claude + cursor feels like a cheat code”, “I basically became a senior webdev in 10 minutes”

The 'tips' section is good.

I'm not sure why it's better to use this boilerplate rather than having cursor create it from scratch?

Cursor is a game changer. It has 10X’d my productivity.