Building an MCP Server: The Project Generator
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mcp-use includes a project generator (create-mcp-use-app) that scaffolds a ready-to-use server with example tools, prompts, resources, and built-in MCP Inspector support.
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Key points
- •A server is the source of truth for capabilities — tools, resources, prompts, and structured interactions like sampling or elicitation
- •mcp-use provides a lightweight, declarative framework for defining these capabilities
- •The book's mcp-use server examples are written in TypeScript specifically — noted here since the batch's Python code example is a translation of the same concept
- •create-mcp-use-app scaffolds a ready-to-use server: TypeScript entrypoint, example tools/prompts/resources, config files, and built-in MCP Inspector support
- •This generator-first approach gets you to a working, correctly-structured starting point immediately, rather than assembling the basic structure by hand