How to Take a Lovable App to Production: The Senior Engineer's Checklist

Short summary

AI builders shipping with Lovable, Bolt, or v0 often skip production hardening. This checklist covers nine essential fixes: moving secrets server-side, enabling Row Level Security on databases, implementing verified auth with expiring sessions, locking CORS, adding error handling and logging, rate-limiting expensive endpoints, setting up CI/CD pipelines, adding observability monitoring, and indexing database queries. The first three fixes close 80% of security holes.

• •Nine engineering fixes needed for production-ready AI-built apps
• •First three (secrets, RLS, auth) address 80% of security vulnerabilities
• •Practical checklist for non-engineers building with AI tools

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