Base44 · You keep what you built
You made a real prompt-to-app on Base44. Screens work. Publish App is green. Now you want that build on ground you name — ZIP or GitHub export in a repo, eject when you need local backend pieces, secrets outside the panel. We help you move what you built so built-in hosting is no longer the only way it ships.
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Leaving Base44 hosting means this: the app lives in a repo you own, entity data has a dump outside the built-in store, Auth secrets sit in a vault you rotate, and someone else can ship without opening Publish App. You are done when the next change ships from your host — not from Publish App. A naive ZIP may still call Base44 backends until you remap them.
Where people get stuck
You do not always need every prompt draft. You do need a ZIP/GitHub of record, row data exported separately, and secrets that are not stuck in the panel.
A teammate cloning the export still fails if Auth only answers when Base44 servers are reachable. Lockfiles, env names, and entity dumps each need a line.
Eject copies schemas, not live rows. Plan CSV/data moves on their own.
Anything only stored in app settings is not a safe home. Fresh values on the destination; rotate what touched the panel.
Also try odd roles, empty entities, cold install with the editor closed, and a build that does not require VITE_BASE44_* for paths you meant to own.
The calm order
We do not ban prompts mid-sprint. We make your host the place real releases come from — after a practiced start and a written way back.
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Proven screens stay. SDK calls you are exiting get replaced. Scratch prompts do not become the architecture story.
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Main protected where you use review. Someone else can clone and start.
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No leftover editor context. Auth redirects and entity data move as one set.
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Name sample accounts and the primary journey. Time-box how long Publish App-only ship is still allowed.
How to
Move export, secrets, and data onto an owned host. Success is a practiced start plus a written way back.
Step 01
Prompt history, entities, connectors, Auth config, Publish App toggles.
Step 02
Lockfiles pinned. Secret names sealed. Start command written down.
Step 03
Odd roles, empty screens, cold clone.
Step 04
Compare what people see. Freeze the working tree at switch time.
Step 05
Support knows panel-era gaps. Time-box going back so two release paths do not invent accounts at once.
Read next
These pages are already on the site. Use them to pressure-test the bet before a call.
Get off Base44
Leave host dependence if the job is to stop shipping from Publish App.
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Production-ready checklist
Moves, backups, and the ship list in checklist form.
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Take the app you built — ZIP/GitHub source, lockfiles, entity schemas, function entrypoints via eject, and a note of connectors. Leave panel caches and editor-only junk behind. Save table dumps on their own so nothing invents that shape later.
List env names the hosted app assumed. Pin Node. Replace “available because Publish App” with install, Vite build, and a host start. Fail the pipeline if the app only boots when Base44 servers answer Auth or entity calls you intended to replace.
Export secret names into an env template; mint new values; never commit panel .env. Restore entity data; reconnect or replace connectors. Update Auth callbacks that still hardcode Base44 hostnames. Rotate old panel values after cutover.
CI lacks Base44-injected runtime the hosted app hid. Auth and entities may still call Base44 via app ID. Connectors are not live credentials in the ZIP. Row data never left. Normalize install, replace backend dependencies you are exiting, and env first. Green Publish App is not a portable owned build.
Bring your prompt-to-app list, entity schemas, and a few test accounts. We put owned ship last — and we name the Publish App path you can roll back to.
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