How to Publish a Lovable Website: Step-by-Step Guide

Publishing a Lovable website takes about two minutes: open your project, click Publish in the top-right corner of the editor, confirm the suggested lovable.app address in the dialog, then click Publish. Lovable builds your app, runs a security scan and gives you a live HTTPS link you can share straight away.

Before you begin

• A Lovable project you want to make public. If you have not created one yet, join Lovable and start a project first.
• Access to the project editor as the owner or an editor.
• A rough idea of what should be public, because only publicly published apps can appear in search results — unpublished, access-restricted and branded workspace URL apps do not.

What actually goes live when you publish

Publishing deploys a snapshot of your app. Edits you make afterwards appear in your editor preview but do not update the live site until you publish again. A dot on the Publish button shows there are changes waiting to deploy, and it clears once you publish.

• App code — the UI, pages and client-side code go live when you publish.
• Database changes and edge functions — on most projects these may apply to the live backend immediately, without publishing. On projects that still have separate Test and Live environments, they reach Live at publish instead.
• Secrets used by server functions are picked up by the preview automatically; the published app receives new or changed values at the next publish.

Publish your website for the first time

1. Open your project in the editor and look at the top-right corner. On a narrow window the Publish control may appear as an icon next to Share.

2. Click Publish. The dialog suggests a lovable.app address — adjust it if you want something different — and shows a security scan of your project.

3. Click Publish in the dialog. Deployment usually takes a minute or two; Lovable shows your live link when it finishes.

4. Open the link and check your pages load. Publishing to a lovable.app URL includes HTTPS automatically, and publishing through the dialog is free on all plans.

Publish later changes

1. Keep editing as normal. Accepting a draft adds its edits to your unpublished changes — it does not publish them.

2. When your changes are ready, click Publish, then Publish changes.

3. Wait for the dot on the Publish button to clear before telling people the site is updated.

You can also ask Lovable for help from chat:

Check whether my latest changes are live on the published site and list anything still waiting to publish.

How to verify it works

• Open the live URL in a private window so you are not seeing cached previews.
• Refresh a nested route directly (for example /blog/some-article) to confirm deep links load.
• If you changed the database, confirm the new data appears for a signed-out visitor.
• Check the dot on the Publish button has cleared.

Common errors and fixes

• The live site has not changed. You edited but did not click Publish changes. The preview always shows more than the live snapshot.
• A database change is already visible before publishing. That is expected on projects without separate environments — backend data changes can apply immediately while code changes wait for publish.
• Security scan warnings. Ask Lovable in chat to fix the specific findings, then publish again.
• The app is not appearing in Google. Confirm it is published publicly; restricted or unpublished apps cannot be indexed. Then connect Google Search Console (covered in a separate tutorial on this site).

Frequently asked questions

Is publishing free? Yes — publishing through the dialog is included on all plans, and the lovable.app URL includes HTTPS.

Can I change the lovable.app address? Yes, adjust the suggested address in the publish dialog before confirming.

Can I use my own domain instead? Yes. Custom domains are set up in project settings and covered in the custom domain tutorial on this site.

How often should I publish? Whenever your changes are ready for visitors. There is no penalty for publishing often, and search engines read the live snapshot.

Official sources and next steps

• Publish your Lovable project
• How Lovable hosts your app

Next, connect a custom domain, then add Google Search Console so search engines pick up your site faster. If you are starting a new project for this, join Lovable and follow the steps above.