Build and scale 
your applications faster 
with Lovable and Scalingo

You've built the perfect application with Lovable. It does exactly what you need. Then traffic starts growing, costs increase, and your customers begin asking for stronger guarantees around data sovereignty.

The good news is that hosting a Lovable application on another platform, such as Scalingo, is not only possible, it is also quick and straightforward. Here's how it works.

What is Lovable?

Lovable is a Swedish "vibe coding" platform, or in other words, an AI-powered no-code web builder. Unlike traditional no-code platforms that rely on drag-and-drop interfaces and visual building blocks, Lovable allows users to describe what they want in natural language. Its AI interprets these requests and generates the code needed to build a functional website or application.

Combined with Supabase, Lovable handles all the key components of a web application, including the frontend, backend, database, authentication, and integrations.

Lovable showcases a wide range of use cases, from simple websites such as portfolios and blogs to frontend applications, full-stack applications like e-commerce platforms, and internal tools such as dashboards.

Why Use Lovable for Application Development?

Lovable offers many advantages for application development. In addition to the fast iteration cycles enabled by natural-language prompts, it allows less technical teams to actively participate in building applications and internal tools. The platform is designed for collaboration, with shared workspaces where team members can contribute together.

One of Lovable's biggest strengths is that it generates editable and auditable code. Unlike some no-code platforms that become black boxes through heavy abstraction, Lovable gives users full access to the code it creates. The frontend is built with React, Vite, and Tailwind, or TanStack Start for the newest versions, and can be modified freely.

The generated code belongs to the user and can be pushed to GitHub, making it easy to export, maintain, or integrate with other systems.

As a result, Lovable can be used in different ways. Teams can use it to build complete applications from scratch, or as a starting point before developers add custom functionality and integrations.

Hosting Lovable Applications

Lovable offers its own hosting solution, Lovable Cloud, which brings all of the platform's capabilities together in a single environment. However, because Lovable relies on open-source technologies that are compatible with most hosting providers, and because the generated code can be exported and used independently, every project can be hosted wherever you choose.

This means you can continue building with Lovable and synchronizing your changes through GitHub while running your application on another hosting platform.

This is particularly valuable for teams with strong compliance requirements, such as data sovereignty, HDS certification, or SecNumCloud qualification. It allows them to combine rapid application development with infrastructure that meets their regulatory needs.

Scalingo: A French Cloud Platform Well Suited for Lovable

Looking for a sovereign hosting provider, HDS-certified infrastructure, or a SecNumCloud-qualified region? That's where Scalingo comes in.

Scalingo is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which means you can deploy your applications without managing the underlying infrastructure. You focus on your application while we handle the operational side behind the scenes.

Several features make Scalingo a good fit for Lovable applications:

• Support for around fifty languages and frameworks, including React and Vite

• GitHub integration for direct deployment from your repository

• Managed database services (DbaaS) built directly into the platform, including PostgreSQL

All data hosted on Scalingo remains within the European Union, with datacenters located in France. You can also enable HDS hosting if your application handles healthcare data, or deploy in a SecNumCloud-qualified region, provided by Outscale IaaS, for highly sensitive workloads.

If you have questions or run into issues, our support team is available directly through the chat interface in your dashboard.

By combining Lovable with Scalingo, you benefit from fast application development and fast deployment. Changes can be pushed from your repository and deployed to production within minutes.

Thanks to Scalingo's project and collaborator management features, the same people working together in Lovable can also collaborate throughout the lifecycle of the application on Scalingo.

Need to share a change internally before releasing it to users? Review Apps make that easy. Experiencing an unexpected traffic spike? Autoscaling helps keep your application available even during sudden peaks in demand.

And that's only a small part of what Scalingo can offer.

How to Migrate Your Lovable Application and Supabase Database

Migrating a Lovable application is straightforward.

First, make sure your project is synchronized with GitHub. Then clone the repository locally and create a new application on Scalingo, either through the CLI or from the dashboard.

From there, only a few adjustments are needed before your application can be deployed.

1. Create a Procfile

At the root of your project, create a Procfile containing:

2. Move Some Packages to Dependencies

Open your package.json file and move the following packages from devDependencies to dependencies:

• @vitejs/plugin-react-swc

• lovable-tagger

• autoprefixer

• postcss

• tailwindcss

3. Update package-lock.json

Run:

npm

npm

npm

npm

4. Allow Requests from Your Scalingo Domain

Update your vite.config.ts file:

server: {
  host: "::",
  port: Number(process.env.PORT) || 8080,
  allowedHosts: ["<name_of_your_app>.<region>.scalingo.io"],
  hmr: {
    overlay: false
  }
}

server: {
  host: "::",
  port: Number(process.env.PORT) || 8080,
  allowedHosts: ["<name_of_your_app>.<region>.scalingo.io"],
  hmr: {
    overlay: false
  }
}

server: {
  host: "::",
  port: Number(process.env.PORT) || 8080,
  allowedHosts: ["<name_of_your_app>.<region>.scalingo.io"],
  hmr: {
    overlay: false
  }
}

server: {
  host: "::",
  port: Number(process.env.PORT) || 8080,
  allowedHosts: ["<name_of_your_app>.<region>.scalingo.io"],
  hmr: {
    overlay: false
  }
}

5. Commit and Push Your Changes

git add vite.config.ts package-lock.json package.json Procfile
git commit -m "Migrate to scalingo"
git

git add vite.config.ts package-lock.json package.json Procfile
git commit -m "Migrate to scalingo"
git

git add vite.config.ts package-lock.json package.json Procfile
git commit -m "Migrate to scalingo"
git

git add vite.config.ts package-lock.json package.json Procfile
git commit -m "Migrate to scalingo"
git

6. Deploy to Scalingo

git

git

git

git

For a detailed explanation of each step and why these changes are required, we recommend reading our migration tutorial.

Lovable provides native integration with Supabase, making it easy to create and manage a database from the same interface used to build the frontend.

The good news is that migrating your database to Scalingo is just as straightforward. Our tutorial includes all the instructions needed to move your PostgreSQL database and run it on our platform.

Getting Started with Scalingo

Getting started with Scalingo is simple. Sign up and you'll receive a 30-day trial that gives you access to most of the platform's features.

If you plan to migrate a Lovable application, we recommend following the sizing guidelines provided in our tutorial, which requires a paid plan.

And if you need advice or assistance with your migration, get in touch. Our team will be happy to help.