MCP Tutorial
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Start learning MCP from the basics.
🎯 What Will You Learn in This Tutorial?
By the end of this tutorial, you should be comfortable with MCP from the basics all the way to advanced concepts.
We will start with the basics:
- What MCP is
- Why MCP exists
- MCP architecture
- MCP Host
- MCP Client
- MCP Server
Then we will start coding:
- Create an MCP server
- Create MCP tools
- Define tool inputs
- Return tool results
- Handle errors
- Connect an MCP client
- Discover tools
- Call tools
Then we will learn the other major MCP capabilities:
- MCP Resources
- MCP Prompts
- Resource templates
- Notifications
After that, we will go deeper into the protocol itself:
- MCP communication
- JSON-RPC
- Requests
- Responses
- Notifications
- Initialization
- Capabilities
- MCP lifecycle
- Transport
Then we will move into advanced MCP features:
- Progress reporting
- Cancellation
- Pagination
- Sampling
- Roots
- Elicitation
- Resource subscriptions
Finally, we will cover the things needed to build serious MCP applications:
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Security
- Error handling
- Logging
- Testing
- Debugging
- Performance
- Deployment
- Versioning
- Production best practices