How to Migrate a Lovable App to Claude Code (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

Everyone’s excited about Claude Code. But almost nobody is talking about the *awkward middle*, what happens to the apps you already built. If you’ve shipped something in Lovable (or Bolt / Replit) with real users and a real database, you shouldn’t have to abandon it every time a new tool drops. In this video, I walk through a **real migration**: from a live Lovable app → local development in Claude Code — **without losing data, breaking Supabase, or starting over**. This isn’t about chasing tools. It’s about owning your code, your data, and your options. What you’ll learn How a Lovable app is structured under the hood Why your *database is the real product* How to push a Lovable project to GitHub How to open and edit the project locally using Claude Code How to verify everything still works with a real code change When (and why) you’d deploy somewhere like Vercel Tools used Lovable Supabase GitHub Claude Code Vercel Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:38 Reviewing the Lovable project 05:13 Pushing the project to GitHub 06:42 Claude Code vs Lovable 07:59 Pulling the code into Claude Code 08:40 Launching a local server 10:57 Having Claude Code review the codebase 11:56 Making a small change with Claude Code 14:08 Final recap & next steps If this helped clarify how modern AI dev workflows actually work, consider subscribing — this channel is all about making sense of the chaos and turning experiments into real products. --- #ClaudeCode #Lovable #Supabase #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers #VibeCoding #AIProgramming #WebDev