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The short version
This page answers common questions about using Lovable, from creating projects and managing teams to handling errors and securing your account. It covers how to build efficiently, collaborate, and manage your projects and account settings.
Anyone using Lovable will find this useful for understanding how the platform works and resolving common issues.
Words decoded
- Workspace
- A shared online area where you and your team can work together on projects, manage billing, and control settings. All your projects and team members live within a workspace.
- Remixing
- Making a copy of an existing project to use as a starting point for a new one, allowing you to make changes without affecting the original.
- Refactoring
- Improving the internal structure and organization of your project's code without changing what it does, making it easier to maintain and update.
- Backend
- The 'behind-the-scenes' part of a website or app that handles data storage, logic, and communication with databases, rather than what users see directly.
- API keys
- Secret codes that allow your project to securely access services from other companies (like payment processors or AI models).
- SEO
- Search Engine Optimization, which is the process of making your website more visible and rank higher in search engine results like Google.
- AI search visibility
- How easily AI-powered search tools and chatbots can find, understand, and use the content from your website.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- An extra security step for logging in, where you need both your password and a temporary code from your phone or another device.
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation, a law about protecting personal data and privacy for individuals in the European Union and European Economic Area.
- Tech stacks
- The collection of programming languages, frameworks, and tools used to build and run a software application.
- Server-side rendering (SSR)
- A method where web pages are generated on the server before being sent to the user's browser, which can make websites load faster and be better for search engines.
- Progressive Web App (PWA)
- A type of website that can look and feel like a regular mobile app, offering features like offline access and home screen installation.
- Context
- The surrounding information and previous messages that an AI uses to understand your current request and provide a relevant response.
Where people get stuck
- Never enter your API keys directly into Lovable; use built-in secrets for security.
- Deleting a project is final and cannot be undone.
- Deleting an account is permanent, though you can cancel a scheduled deletion within 30 days.
- Reverting a project only restores code, not database data.
- You cannot change your login email directly; you must create a new account and move projects by remixing them.
- You cannot start a Lovable project by importing code from external sources like GitHub.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.