| Really depends on the app you want to build. If I'd use Vibe coding I wouldn't use Lovable but Claude code. You can run it in your terminal. And I would ask it to use NextAuth, NextJS and Prisma (or another ORM), and connect it with SQLite or an external MariaDB managed server (for easy development you can start with SQLLite, for deployment to vercel you need an external database). People here shit on nextjs, but due to its extensive documentation & usage the LLM's are very good at building with it, and since it forces a certain structure it produces generally decently structured code that is workable for a developer. Also vercel is very easy to deploy, just connect Github and you are done. Make sure to properly use GIT and commit per feature, even better branch per feature. So you can easily revert back to old versions if Claude messed up. Before starting, spend some time sparring with GPT5 thinking model to create a database scheme thats future proof before starting out. It might be a challenge here to find the right balance between over-engineering and simplicity. One caveat: be careful to run migration on your production database with Claude. It can accidentally destroy it. So only run your claude code on test databases. |
I’m not 100% set on Lovable yet. Right now I’m using Stitch AI to build out the wireframes. The main reason I was leaning toward Lovable is that it seems pretty good at UI design and layout.
How does Claude do on that front? Can it handle good UI structure or does it usually need some help from a design tool?
Also, is it possible to get mobile apps out of a Next.js setup?
My thought was to start with the web version, and later maybe wrap it using Cordova (or Capacitor) like I did years ago with Ionic to get Android/iOS versions. Just wondering if that’s still a sensible path today.