Lovable · Cutover
Export is the starting artifact. Migration is complete when users authenticate against identity you operate, data lives in a store you can restore, and DNS answers from accounts you admin — with a rehearsal that already failed safely.
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Migrating from Lovable is a cutover of code, data, identity, and traffic onto infrastructure you can inventory. The export is the starting artifact. The migration is complete when auth tokens, environment variables, and DNS answer from your accounts, a rehearsal has restored data into a throwaway environment, and rollback is a prior artifact — not a hope that the old project still runs.
Why migrations stall
Pointing a domain at a new host is the visible step. Sessions, webhooks, and foreign keys are the ones that wake you up.
If session cookies or magic links only work on the builder host, a DNS flip logs everyone out — or worse, splits identity.
Temporary sync is fine. An unowned sync job is a second production. Write the date it dies before you start it.
Payments, email, and storage callbacks will keep writing to the builder until every vendor is repointed and tested.
That is hope. Rollback is the previous artifact and a data reverse or forward-fix you have already timed.
The cutover sequence
We will not flip a domain to prove velocity. We flip it after a failed rehearsal has already taught us the reverse.
01
Tables, files, cron, auth providers, and every callback URL. If it is not on the list, it is not in the migration.
02
New project, new secrets, production-like config, no production data yet. Prove the app boots from a clean checkout.
03
Take a copy, load it, and complete the paid or invite journey. Compare counts. That rehearsal is the migration’s first artifact.
04
Sessions and webhooks before public traffic. DNS last. Keep a freeze window and a named rollback artifact.
How to
A cutover of code, data, identity, and traffic. Success is a rehearsal plus a rollback artifact, not a DNS change alone.
Step 01
List tables, file buckets, cron, auth, email, payments, and webhook URLs. Assign an owner to each. Missing items do not migrate; they break later.
Step 02
New host, new secrets, clean checkout. Confirm the build and a smoke login before any production data is copied.
Step 03
Load a copy of the data, run the core journey, and compare record counts. Time the restore. That timing is part of the rollback plan.
Step 04
Move auth and webhooks so sessions and payments do not split across hosts. Dual-write only with a written end date.
Step 05
Freeze risky writes, switch traffic, watch the core journey, and keep the previous artifact ready. Hope that Lovable still runs is not rollback.
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Data, identity, webhooks, scheduled jobs, file storage, and DNS — each with an owner. The export is the code starting point. The migration is complete when those dependencies answer from accounts you can restore and roll back.
Reproduce on empty infrastructure, rehearse a restore, then move identity and callbacks before DNS. If you dual-write, write the end date before the job starts. An unowned sync is a second production system.
After identity and vendor callbacks work on the new host, and after a restore rehearsal has already succeeded. DNS is the public step. Data and sessions are the load-bearing ones.
That rollback is a prior artifact and a timed restore or forward-fix — not a belief that the old Lovable project will still boot. A rehearsal that cannot fail safely is not a rehearsal.
Bring the tables, the auth provider, and the webhook list. We will put DNS last — and name the artifact you roll back to.
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