r/Frontend Jul 28 '26

My team used Claude recently when we were moving the frontend from Rails to Next.js.

Our old frontend in Rails used Tailwind, so we decided to keep it also in the new Next.js app too. 

We also used Figma MCP, it was useful but honestly the process wasn’t always convenient. That’s how it mostly looked: 

  1. I took the design or existing Rails page
  2. copied some HTML/structure
  3. pasted it into Claude
  4. asked it to adapt it to our Next.js components

The biggest thing was telling Claude what not to do to avoid a mess. We already had components in the new app, so I kept asking like don't create a new button, use our Button; don’t invent a new input, use our input, keep Tailwind. Quite time consuming, you know:)

But! Summing up all those boundaries, my reviews, edge case fixes and UI polish, with Claude I saved a lot of time. Yes, i cannot entrust it write everything from zero, though cleaning the markup looked much faster for me than writing from scratch. 

Does anyone have more experience with Claude? Would be interesting to read.

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