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Learn about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its revolutionary approach to internet interaction through this comprehensive 24-minute tutorial. Explore practical examples including travel applications, GitHub integration, and Figma workflows to understand how MCP differs from traditional REST APIs. Discover MCP tools and their capabilities, then follow along with a hands-on demonstration of building an MCP server example using ImageKit for image and video uploads. Examine the underlying MCP architecture and gain access to essential resources and prompts to implement this technology in your own projects. Master the fundamentals of MCP and understand why it represents the future of how applications communicate and interact across the internet.
Syllabus
00:00 Intro
01:00 Travel example
04:42 GitHub MCP example
06:40 Figma example
07:32 REST API vs MCP
10:14 MCP tools
11:58 ImageKit
17:02 Build MCP-server example
22:17 MCP-architecture
22:56 Resources
23:26 Prompts
Taught by
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