Let's Build A Full Stack App With Lovable.dev AI | Supabase, Auth, Database, API & More

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Build a full-stack web app with me using Lovable.dev, a new AI coding tool with cool features, including Supabase integration.

Just enter the concept, details, and features of the app you want to build, and let Lovable build the app for you.

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I was able to build an AI-powered recipe generator web app where users can upload a picture of all the ingredients that they have in their regulator, and the AI will suggest all the items and recipes that could be made out of it.

The entire process took less than 15 minutes, and you can, too, build any complex web app using Lovable Dev.

Lovable Dev will take care of everything, including the frontend, backend, database, authentication, storage, API routes, edge functions, and all of that.

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Summary

Building a Full Stack App in Minutes with Lovable.dev AI

In this comprehensive tutorial, AstroKJoseph demonstrates how to build a complete full-stack web application without writing a single line of code using Lovable.dev, an innovative AI coding platform. The video showcases the development of an AI-powered recipe generator app with a unique twist - users can upload photos of ingredients from their refrigerator, and the AI suggests recipes that can be made with those items.

The tutorial walks through the entire development process, highlighting Lovable.dev's seamless integration with Supabase for authentication, database management, and API functionality. Within just 15 minutes, viewers see how to implement features including user authentication, image uploading, AI-powered recipe generation using OpenAI's API, and a recipe saving system.

Key aspects covered include:
- Setting up a Lovable.dev account and navigating its intuitive interface
- Creating a project using simple English prompts to describe app requirements
- Integrating Supabase for database management and user authentication
- Implementing OpenAI API for intelligent recipe suggestions
- Building a responsive UI with React and Tailwind CSS
- Adding advanced features like saved recipes and user profiles
- Creating a landing page and protected routes
- Deploying the finished application with one click

The video demonstrates the platform's ability to handle complex tasks like database migrations, authentication flows, and third-party API integration automatically. When issues arise during development, Lovable.dev's AI provides solutions and implements fixes with minimal human intervention.

This tutorial is perfect for entrepreneurs, developers, and hobbyists looking to quickly prototype and build functional web applications without deep coding knowledge. By the end, viewers see a complete, deployed application that allows users to upload ingredient photos, receive AI-generated recipe suggestions, view detailed cooking instructions, and save favorite recipes to their profile.

Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to accelerate your workflow or someone with no coding experience wanting to bring your app idea to life, this tutorial demonstrates how Lovable.dev's AI-powered platform can transform the app development process.

Transcript

0:00 all right so how cool would it be if you 0:02 can create a fully functional full stack 0:04 web app using AI without writing a 0:07 single line of code so the AI will take 0:09 care of everything like the back end 0:11 front end databases authentication API 0:13 routes and whatnot and most specifically 0:16 we are going to build an AI power recipe 0:18 generator app with a Twist so the user 0:21 can go ahead and capture a picture of 0:23 all the items that they have in the 0:24 refrigerator or arranged on a table and 0:27 they can send it to the AI or the tool 0:28 that we about to develop and the tool 0:30 will go through all the items that we 0:31 have and suggest recipes that could be 0:33 made out of it and upon clicking it it 0:35 will the tool will show the entire 0:37 recipe in detail okay now that's the app 0:39 that we're trying to build and for this 0:41 one we are going to use an AI app 0:43 building platform called as lovable 0:44 dodev and L.D is an AI powered platform 0:48 that you can use to build full stack web 0:50 applications by giving Simple Text 0:52 prompts in English so you could go ahead 0:54 and tell you want to build this kind of 0:55 an app this features are needed and 0:57 these other stuff that I want to do with 0:58 the app and the AI will go ahead and 1:00 write the code and gives you the output 1:02 and you can even deploy it and the best 1:04 part lovable. dev has integration with 1:06 super base so you can go ahead and add 1:08 authentication integrate databases and 1:10 take care of all that activities in a 1:12 single click and I'll explain more about 1:14 L.D and all the features that you has to 1:16 offer throughout this video and now 1:18 without was any further Ado let's jump 1:19 straight in all right so this right here 1:21 is lovable dodev and the first thing 1:23 that you going to do is to sign up for a 1:25 free account so you can go ahead and 1:26 click on the first link in the 1:27 description below and sign up for a new 1:29 account and and once you log in this is 1:31 going to be the interface that you will 1:32 see so as soon as you land on the 1:34 dashboard you will find a huge input box 1:37 where you can go ahead and give details 1:39 as to what kind of app that you want to 1:41 build and what are the features that you 1:42 want to include and all sorts of stuff 1:44 like that and now let me quickly 1:46 introduce the whole UI of lovable dodev 1:48 so up to the top you can find a section 1:50 called as templates and if you open it 1:52 up you'll be able to find a lot of 1:54 starter templates that you can start 1:55 using in a single click for example we 1:57 have the S startup landing page modern 1:59 business landing page and a bunch of 2:01 other landing page templates and if you 2:02 want to build dashboards they have a 2:04 professional admin dashboard crypto 2:06 trading uh dashboard creative portfolio 2:08 website and when we go to tools and app 2:10 section we have a modern chat 2:11 application UI Online Marketplace and a 2:14 bunch of others and if you want to you 2:15 can click on it and click on the start 2:17 building option and start using these 2:19 templates in a single click and now I'm 2:20 not going to use that and if you scroll 2:22 over you can find all the projects that 2:24 you've been working on and if you click 2:25 on the latest one you'll be able to find 2:27 the latest projects that other people 2:28 been working on and if you click on the 2:30 featured option you'll be able to find 2:32 all the featured projects in here and if 2:34 you want to access the same you can go 2:35 ahead and click on one of them and it 2:37 should open it up and you will be able 2:39 to see all the code and also see how 2:41 functional the whole website is so this 2:43 right here is an example of a web app 2:46 that is created using lovable and now to 2:48 quickly get started the first thing that 2:49 you got to do is to enter your app idea 2:52 and all the requirements in this input 2:54 field right here so I'll go ahead and 2:55 quickly paste my app requirements in 2:57 here so as you can see I want to build 2:59 an AI recipe generator website the user 3:01 uploads a photo of items that they have 3:03 in their refrigerator and click generate 3:05 the AI will analyze the items in the 3:07 photo and suggest a few recipes that can 3:09 be made using them as the user selects 3:11 the recipe a detailed recipe should be 3:12 shown on the screen and let's use open 3:15 AI API for this one and now this is the 3:17 prompt that I'm going to give to 3:19 initially start building the app and if 3:20 you want to you can go ahead and include 3:22 all the customized features that you 3:23 want and what are the exact types of uh 3:25 things that you want to include any any 3:27 if you want to give any directions to 3:29 the A you can go ahead and include it in 3:31 here and now if you want to attach an 3:32 image for reference you can go ahead and 3:34 click on this image option and upload a 3:36 image as well and now if you click on 3:37 this configure option you'll be able to 3:39 find the text tag that we're going to 3:40 use to build this app and in this case 3:42 it's we react shat CN UI tailin and 3:44 typescript so all I got to do is to go 3:46 ahead and click on the send button and 3:49 wait for the AI to complete the initial 3:51 version or code the initial version of 3:53 our app and you can go ahead and give 3:55 followup proms or and request changes 3:57 and make the app the way you want it to 3:58 be and now let just wait for the AI to 4:00 complete writing the code all right so 4:02 this right here is the initial version 4:04 of the app that lovable dodev has 4:06 generated for us and up to the top you 4:08 can find a title an instruction and also 4:11 a section to upload your image so you 4:13 can go ahead and either click on this 4:14 one to upload the image or simply drag 4:16 and drop the item so I'll quickly go 4:17 ahead and drag and drop a image and you 4:19 can find the preview in here and I can 4:21 click on the generate recipes option and 4:23 the AI will now for now it's actually 4:25 using Mo data but this is how things 4:27 will look and will actually integrate 4:28 the AI in a bit and if you click on the 4:30 generate recipes option it will show the 4:32 suggested items and we have two options 4:34 right here and if I select this creamy 4:36 mushroom pasta if I click on The View 4:38 recipe option it will now show me a 4:40 detailed you know kind of a recipe the 4:42 ingredients time servings instructions 4:44 and whatnot and now as of now it is 4:46 using a mo data it's not making any call 4:49 to open AI API or anything so I'll go 4:51 ahead and Implement open AI API for that 4:54 I'll go ahead and say uh Implement open 4:58 AI API and I can hit enter so it says 5:01 I'll help you implement the open a API 5:03 integration and ask us to enter our API 5:06 key so the next thing that I got to do 5:07 is to grab my openai API key for that I 5:10 can head over to platform. 5:12 open.com and then I'll click on this 5:15 settings API Keys create new and for 5:19 this one let's put it as 5:21 recipe uh project default one create 5:25 secret key so I'll go ahead and grab my 5:28 API key copy it 5:30 and put it up in here all right so the 5:32 API key is in place and I can click on 5:34 save so it says this project needs to be 5:36 connected to superbase to save secrets 5:39 and as mentioned earlier lovable. div 5:41 has a tight integration with superbase 5:43 and to connect to superbase all you got 5:45 to do is to click on the superbase 5:46 option and you'll be able to find an 5:48 option that says connect superbase and 5:50 upon clicking it you'll be able to 5:52 authorize access to lovable dodev and 5:55 for now I'll go ahead and click on 5:57 authorize lovable and now it says 5:58 connecting to Super base and hopefully 6:00 it should be done in less than 10 6:02 seconds and as you can see I have 6:03 successfully connected my superbase 6:05 account to lovable and if I want to add 6:07 authentication database third party API 6:09 calls or anything else I could easily do 6:11 it using superbase and to create a new 6:13 project all I got to do is to hover over 6:15 this option and click on the option that 6:17 says create new project and for the name 6:19 I'll put recipe next up enter a password 6:21 select a region and I'll click on create 6:23 new project all right so the project is 6:26 now successfully created so I can head 6:28 back to lovable click on the super base 6:29 option click on this one and select this 6:33 one so I can click on the connect option 6:35 and a popup like this will appear and I 6:37 can click on the connect option now this 6:39 way I can easily connect my superbase uh 6:41 account with lavable dodev and it says 6:44 I'm now connecting to superbase and 6:45 let's wait for a few seconds and as you 6:47 can see your app is now connected to 6:49 super base so now let's just go ahead 6:51 and try to sort of copy the API key I'll 6:55 paste it in here and let's say click 6:57 save and hopefully it should work this 6:59 time and as you can see the API Keys 7:01 have been saved successfully and I'm 7:03 hoping this will work now I'll go ahead 7:05 and quickly drag and drop an image again 7:07 this one right here click on generate 7:09 recipes so it says error failed to 7:11 generate recipes please try again so I 7:13 can go ahead and say when I upload the 7:17 image and click generate it shows error 7:23 failed to generate recipes and the AI 7:28 should take care of fixing all the 7:30 errors for us so let's wait all right so 7:33 it has found some solution first I 7:35 notice we need to create a table in 7:36 super base all right so to handle the 7:39 opena integration properly we need to 7:40 create a new table in super base and for 7:43 that we'll need to create a recipes 7:44 table first okay got it after you 7:47 approve these SQL commands I'll provide 7:48 the code changes to fix the recipe 7:50 generation functionality so it's 7:52 creating a new table called as recipes 7:55 it's adding RLS policies then allowing 7:57 public read access and only allow 7:59 authenticated users to insert so I can 8:01 go ahead and click on maybe copy this 8:03 one and click on apply 8:06 changes all right so lovable. Dev will 8:10 actually automatically run this for us 8:12 okay that's cool so I thought I I might 8:14 have to go to this SQL editor section 8:15 and manually paste the content and 8:17 execute it but no but it seems like 8:19 loveable has already done the migration 8:20 for us and now if I head over to table 8:23 editor I should be able to find the 8:24 recipes Table and there we have it all 8:27 right so that's really cool so lovable 8:29 has actually created the table and added 8:31 it to our superbase project so that's an 8:33 interesting thing so let's wait so it's 8:36 now changing the code to make the recipe 8:38 generation functionality to work so 8:40 let's wait this is an interesting one so 8:42 it says the index. TSX file is getting 8:44 quite long so after confirming these 8:46 changes work we should consider 8:48 refactoring it into small components for 8:50 better maintainability that's also cool 8:52 so let me quickly go ahead and drag and 8:53 drop the image again and let's click on 8:55 generate recipes and let's 8:58 see uh it failed again now that's 9:02 something okay what is 9:05 it all right so I'm not sure so I can go 9:08 ahead and click on try to fix it option 9:10 all right so it says I see the issue the 9:12 error occurs because we trying to call a 9:14 superbase edge function and it is asking 9:17 us to enter the API key again so I'll go 9:19 ahead and copy it again and hopefully it 9:22 works this time so I'll paste it in here 9:24 click on Save and let's see API key has 9:27 been saved successfully and it's says 9:29 couldn't deploy superbase functions all 9:31 right so that's an interesting one uh 9:34 let me click on try to fix it again all 9:36 right so let me quickly go ahead and 9:37 drag and drop the image again click on 9:39 generate recipes and hopefully things 9:41 will work now so let's wait it says 9:44 analyzing 9:46 ingredients and as you can see we have 9:49 got recipe suggestions and based on the 9:51 image that we uploaded uh we actually 9:54 have an error so we'll deal with that 9:55 later uh but as you can see the AI has 9:59 suggested us three uh recipes and as you 10:02 can see we have I guess mushroom uh beef 10:05 then we have a couple of other ve 10:06 veggies in here and the suggested 10:08 recipes are beef and mushroom stir fry 10:11 ginger beef skewers with grilled 10:12 vegetables and saory beef and vegetable 10:15 ceral okay now these are the three 10:16 recipes that the AI has suggested for us 10:18 and for now let me quickly go ahead and 10:20 click on the first option beef and 10:22 mushroom stir fry and click on The View 10:24 recipe option and there you have it we 10:27 have the ingredients the title the time 10:30 it takes the servings and also the 10:32 instructions to prepare the same all 10:34 right so we basically went ahead and 10:36 uploaded an image of all the items that 10:38 we have in a refrigerator and the AI has 10:40 taken all the ingredients and it has 10:42 given us the recipe and for let's say I 10:44 want to try a different one we have 10:45 another one here so I can click on The 10:47 View recipe option and it should show us 10:49 the recipe as easy as that so now the 10:52 core functionality of our app is indeed 10:54 working and this is exactly what I 10:56 wanted so now let's just go ahead and 10:58 try to implement authentic into our app 11:00 so that only authenticated users are 11:01 allowed to use our app so I can simply 11:03 go ahead and say add authentication to 11:08 our app and all I got to do is to press 11:10 enter and hopefully it will take care of 11:12 all that stuff for me okay so let's wait 11:14 all right so it says I'll help you add 11:15 authentication to the app and first let 11:17 me check if we need to store the user 11:19 profile data all right so it's creating 11:22 a couple of tables for example public. 11:25 profiles enabling RLS profile policies 11:28 create a new function all right so I'll 11:31 go ahead and click on this apply changes 11:32 option and it will automatically apply 11:34 the migration for us and after it is 11:36 done we should be able to see the table 11:38 up in here so let's we already have it 11:40 in here so the profiles table is up and 11:42 live so it has an ID username Avatar URL 11:45 created at updated at etc etc all right 11:48 so it says implemented authentication 11:50 with the following features so it added 11:52 a login page a log out button main route 11:54 to require authentication so the main 11:56 route is actually protected and only if 11:58 a person logs in in they're able to 12:00 access the app and first up let me go 12:01 ahead and click on this don't have an 12:02 account option I'll select my email 12:04 address and put a password as well let's 12:07 say a random password and I click on 12:10 sign up and there you have it I'm 12:12 successfully logged in and I have 12:14 temporarily disabled email uh 12:16 verification by the way so only people 12:17 within the organization can do that and 12:19 I just went to uh superbase 12:21 authentication settings and providers 12:24 and I disabled this confirm email option 12:27 but if you enable this option users will 12:28 be only allowed to use your app after 12:31 they have done the verification so a 12:32 link will be sent to their email and 12:34 user has to click on it and after the 12:36 verification they'll be able to log in 12:37 and if I go to the user section I should 12:39 find my newly added user right here all 12:42 right so let me quickly Go I mean I'm 12:44 already logged in by the way so I you 12:45 can find a log out button and yeah 12:47 that's it authentication is implemented 12:49 so let me quickly go ahead and log out 12:51 first and put my 12:55 email the password sign in there you 12:59 have it authentication implemented in a 13:01 JY and next up let's say I want to add a 13:03 new functionality so basically I want to 13:06 move the core app okay this part right 13:08 here I want to move it to Let's say/ 13:10 recipe and as for the root page I want 13:12 to convert it into a landing page 13:14 explaining or about our app and give a 13:16 cool design as well so I'll go ahead and 13:18 say change the main app to/ recipe 13:26 directory and change the the rout to a 13:30 landing page with some 13:34 important info about our app so I can go 13:38 ahead and click on enter and let's wait 13:40 so basically what I want is I want the 13:41 landing page or the uh root of our page 13:44 to be you know a page giving some 13:46 general information about our app and to 13:48 move the entire recipe generator to/ 13:50 recipe uh section so let's wait for it 13:52 to complete and reorganize everything 13:54 else so let's wait all right so there we 13:56 have it and let me quickly open it up in 13:58 a new tab so this right here is the 13:59 landing page and if I click on the start 14:01 cooking option it asks me to log in so 14:03 let me go ahead and put my email and 14:06 password and click on sign in and it 14:09 should Now take me let's say to the 14:11 dashboard and here I can go ahead and 14:13 upload image and generate recipes and do 14:15 all that stuff for me so that is how 14:17 simple it is to create a full stack app 14:19 using lovable dodev so we have 14:22 implemented authentication databases API 14:24 routes and created a landing page and 14:26 even the functional part and pretty much 14:28 every everything else is taken care of 14:30 by Ai and now let's say I want to modify 14:32 the app a bit more for example let's say 14:35 I want to change the entire look and 14:36 feel of the app especially the recipe 14:38 generator and I also want to implement a 14:40 feature where there should be a save 14:43 option and when I click on the save 14:44 option the recipe generated should be 14:46 saved to my saved section and I should 14:48 be able to access all of that by going 14:50 to a saved uh section page all right so 14:52 that is basically what I'm trying to 14:53 implement so I'll head back to lovable 14:55 and I'll say change the entire look 15:04 saved page all right so I'll go ahead 15:07 and click on enter all right so lovable 15:10 has started writing the code for the 15:11 same and it is now creating a new table 15:14 called as saved recipes on our superbase 15:16 project so I'll go ahead and click on 15:17 the apply changes option and that way we 15:20 should see a new table in our database 15:23 and what was it table editor and there 15:25 we have it saved recipes and now the 15:28 migration is successful and I guess it's 15:30 going to implement all other uh changes 15:33 now so let's wait till it is done all 15:35 right so it says I've updated the design 15:36 and implemented the save recipe 15:38 functionality so let me quickly go ahead 15:40 and refresh the page to see the changes 15:42 and as far as I can tell the UI hasn't 15:44 really changed much so let's see if the 15:46 saved functionality is implemented so 15:48 I'll go ahead and drag and drop a 15:50 different image this time so this one 15:52 right here click on generate recipes and 15:55 it says analyzing ingredients and let's 15:57 wait h H so we indeed see some changes 16:01 in terms of the visual aspect because we 16:02 can see a nice gradient effect and also 16:05 a nice shadow on Hover and we also have 16:08 this heart icon right here which we can 16:10 use to save the recipe to the saved 16:12 section as well for example let me go 16:13 ahead and say beef and bean taco bowls I 16:16 can click on view recipe and here we 16:18 have the entire recipe and if I click on 16:20 back to recipes we have it in here and 16:22 to save it all I got to do is to click 16:23 on the save option and it says recipe 16:26 saved recipe added to your saved 16:28 collection and if I go to Let's say/ 16:30 saved I should be able to find all those 16:33 uh recipes that I saved hopefully so 16:35 let's see all right so it seems like the 16:37 saved page is not working so I can go 16:39 ahead and say slash saved page is not 16:43 working 16:45 also add a Navar with link to/ saved 16:51 page as well so I'll go ahead and hit 16:53 enter and let's wait for a few seconds 16:55 all right so seems like the changes are 16:58 made live and as you can see we have the 17:00 saved recipe section right here all 17:02 right so it has generated the recipe so 17:04 I quickly went ahead and uploaded the 17:05 image again and here we have a couple of 17:07 recipes and I'll go ahead and let's say 17:10 save a bunch of them and to view it 17:12 obviously you can click on The View 17:13 button and now that I saved some recipes 17:16 I should be able to view that by going 17:17 to the saved recipes section so if I 17:19 head over to saved recipes well I'm 17:22 unable to see so 17:24 right if I refresh this 17:26 table it does not really work all right 17:29 so all I got to do is to say after I 17:33 click the save button I can't find the 17:37 recipe in the saved page please fix and 17:43 I'll hit enter and let's wait for it to 17:45 fix the error all right so the saved 17:48 functionality is now working and I added 17:50 a couple of these items or recipes to 17:52 the saved section and if I click on the 17:54 saved recipes option and if I refresh it 17:56 I should be able to find all the items 17:58 that has saved and if I want to view 18:00 that all I got to do is to click on this 18:01 view recipe option and it should show me 18:04 the entire step and if I want to uh view 18:06 the other one I can click on The View 18:07 recipe option and everything is in place 18:10 so we built an AI power recipe generator 18:13 app where users can go ahead and upload 18:15 a image of all the items or ingredients 18:17 that they have and the AI will go ahead 18:19 and suggest all the recipes and even 18:21 view detailed instructions as well and 18:23 if you want to deploy your app all you 18:24 got to do is to click on this publish 18:26 icon click on the deploy option and you 18:28 should be able ble to deploy it to a 18:30 custom domain from lovable. and if you 18:32 already have a custom domain you can go 18:34 ahead and use it and as you can see the 18:36 site is now published and is up and live 18:38 and anyone can access this website by 18:40 going over to this link and if I open it 18:42 up in a new tab I should be able to see 18:45 the app so there you have it and since 18:47 I'm not logged in I will be asked to log 18:48 in and you can take it up from there all 18:50 right so this is how simple it is to use 18:52 loveable dodev to create a full stack 18:55 application with databases 18:56 authentication front end backend API 18:58 routes and pretty much everything so as 19:01 you saw in the video I went ahead and 19:02 created an AI power recipe generator app 19:05 integrating open aai and doing all that 19:07 cool stuff like adding the saved 19:09 functionality databases authentication 19:11 and everything else now you can to go 19:12 ahead and start building apps like these 19:14 using lovable dodev and for that all you 19:16 got to do is to click on the first link 19:18 in the description below sign up for a 19:19 free account and start using the 19:20 platform so I hope you guys found this 19:22 video useful and if yes make sure to 19:23 subscribe and I'll see you in the next 19:25 one