Chapter 8: Advanced Cursor usage skills
Master these advanced skills and make Cursor your exclusive AI programming partner!
1 Project Insight
1 Planning Documentation Before Coding Reduces AI Illusions Increases Development Efficiency
Before opening the code editor, you can prepare the necessary documentation to effectively guide the AI tool. Here's what I create:
- Project Requirements Document (PRD): defines the MVP scope, functionality, and goals.
- Tech Stack Documentation: Lists frameworks, libraries, and integrations.
- App Flow Documentation: Maps the entire user journey from login to functional interactions.
- Front End Guidelines Documentation: Ensures consistency in UI/UX design.
- Backend Architecture documentation: outlining API routing, database architecture, and core logic.
- Writing these documents manually took too much time, so I now use CodeGuide to generate them in minutes. This maintains development structure and prevents AI illusions (random, wrong code).
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2 Code structure analysis
🔍 Quickly understand project architecture
You: Help me analyze the structure and technology stack of this project
Cursor: Let me analyze it for you in depth:
1. Project directory structure
2. Frameworks and libraries used
3. Core functional modules
4. Data flow diagram
3 Generate a program block diagram
Please help me draw the flowchart of index.html, and draw a detailed version
+---------------------+
| Start the game |
+---------------------+
|
v
+---------------------+
| Initialize the game |
| - Set the game area |
| - Initialize the grid |
| - Generate a new block |
| - Set score to 0 |
| - Set the game state |
+---------------------+
|
v
+---------------------+
| Main game loop |
| +-----------------+
| | Check user input |
| | - Move left |
| | - Move right |
| | - Rotate |
| | - Move down |
| +-----------------+
| |
| v
| +-----------------+
| | Update block position |
| | - Fall |
| | - Check bounds |
| +-----------------+
| |
| v
| +-----------------+
| | Check collision |
| | - Collision with the grid |
| | - Collision with other blocks |
| +-----------------+
| |
| v
| +-----------------+
| | Fix blocks to grid |
| | - Update grid state |
| +-----------------+
| |
| v
| +-----------------+
| | Check for row elimination |
| | - Check each row |
| | - Eliminate complete row |
| | - Update score |
| +-----------------+
| |
| v
| +-----------------+
| | Draw game state |
| | - Draw grid |
| | - Draw blocks |
| | - Show score |
| +-----------------+
+---------------------+
|
v
+---------------------+
| Game over |
| - Check top border |
| - Show end message |
| - Provide restart option |
+---------------------+