Your first MCP server in TypeScript with Routecraft

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

If you have heard of the Model Context Protocol and want a working server in front of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or your IDE's MCP client in about ten minutes, this post is for you. We will scaffold a TypeScript project, write a tool, run it locally, and connect an AI agent to call it. No auth, no Docker, no platform. If you would rather start with the framework's own tour, the Routecraft