Move your app · Bolt
Deploy your Bolt app to your own domain and accounts
Bolt builds Vite apps, usually on Supabase. They deploy anywhere that serves files, once three things are right: their keys, their pages, and the files that came with the export.
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What carries over
Your Supabase project, by setting its address and key, or a new one Launchpad creates.
What to watch for
A .env exported into the repository puts your keys where anyone with access can read them, and an import written with the wrong capital letters works on a Mac and fails on the build server.
Launchpad recognises a Bolt app by The .bolt folder, and adjusts what it sets up before anything is created.
The steps
- Push the app to GitHub from Bolt, or download it as a zip.
- Run the free launch check on the repository or the zip.
- Paste the fix request into Bolt's chat, and let it make the changes.
- Import the repository in Launchpad and deploy it on your domain.
Problems Bolt apps hit, and their fixes
- Pages show 404 when refreshed or opened directly
- Works locally, blank or broken in production: missing environment variables
- Supabase tables without Row Level Security: anyone can read and change your data
- Supabase service-role key exposed in the browser
- OpenAI or Anthropic API key exposed in the browser
- Anyone can run up your OpenAI bill
- .env file and API keys committed to GitHub
- API routes and admin pages anyone can call
Questions
My app works in Bolt. Why would it break elsewhere?
Bolt's environment sets your keys and serves every page for you. A new host does neither until it's told, and builds on Linux, where file names' capital letters matter. The launch check lists each of these before you deploy.
Can I check it without GitHub?
Yes. Download the project as a zip from Bolt and upload it on the launch check page (up to 4 MB, without node_modules).
Is Launchpad part of Bolt?
No. Launchpad is an independent product by Axonscape. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Bolt; it recognises apps made with it so moving them is easier.
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