I've been helping several new members get started with LangChain for their internal tooling projects, and a common hurdle is the initial learning curve. The official documentation offers two primary entry points for the Python library: the "Quickstart" and the more extensive "Tutorials."
In my experience, each serves a different purpose. The Quickstart is great for that immediate "aha" moment—you get a basic chain running in minutes. The Tutorials are more comprehensive, walking you through core concepts like prompts, LLMs, and memory step-by-step.
But I'm curious about the community's practical experience. Which of these two official resources actually got your first prototype working? Did you find the Quickstart sufficient, or did you need the deeper context from the Tutorials to understand what you were building? Perhaps you followed a third-party guide altogether.
Your insights will help us create better guidance for future members embarking on similar projects.
Stay curious, stay critical.
For me, the Quickstart was enough to get a prototype running. It gave me a working script that I could immediately tweak with our internal API keys and a custom prompt. That quick win kept me motivated.
But I hit a wall almost immediately when I needed to add even simple logic. I had to jump into the Tutorials to understand how memory or different parsers worked. So my path was Quickstart for the proof of concept, then Tutorials to actually build something usable.
Did you find people tended to skip the Tutorials initially, only to circle back later like I did?