How my Lovable workflow looks in 2026

Hey builders,

Lovable has shipped a LOT in the last few months.

Design themes.
AI connectors.
Built-in cloud.
MCP support.

It’s honestly easy to miss how big these changes are unless you’re building with it regularly.

So instead of listing features, I want to show you how I actually use Lovable on real projects and why my workflow looks very different now.

Design View + Themes changed everything

Before this, styling was painful.

I would spend hours fixing colors, fonts, and spacing across 15–20 screens.

One small design change meant touching everything.

Now, I set a theme once.

Colors, typography, spacing, border radius.

It applies everywhere automatically.

Light mode.

Dark mode.

Brand colors.

All controlled from one place.

To access it:

Click the + button next to Preview → Design View → Themes.

You can even import an existing CSS file and turn it into a reusable theme across multiple projects.

This alone saves me HOURS per build.

Connectors are the biggest unlock (most people ignore this)

Lovable now has a proper Connectors hub.

Native:

Supabase, GitHub, Stripe, Clerk, Shopify

AI:

ElevenLabs, Perplexity, Firecrawl, Miro

Work tools:

Jira, Confluence, Notion, Linear, n8n

This is the shift most people miss.

You’re not just building apps anymore.

You’re building apps that plug into everything.

Two connectors I use all the time

Perplexity

This adds live research and web answers with sources directly into your app.

Perfect if you’re building:

• AI research tools

• Market analysis apps

• Anything that needs fresh data

No stale knowledge. Real-time answers.

Firecrawl

This one is wild.

It scrapes any website and turns it into structured content your app can actually use.

I’ve used it for:

• Competitor analysis tools

• Lead scrapers

• Content aggregation

Firecrawl is FREE until January 31st 2026 through Lovable.

If you’re building anything data-driven, use it while you can.

Two more connectors worth knowing

ElevenLabs

This lets you build apps that talk.

Text-to-speech.

Voice responses.

Audio-first experiences.

I used this on a client AI learning app.

Users listen instead of read.

Setup took about 10 minutes.

Miro

This one is underrated.

Lovable can read your Miro boards and turn brainstorms into working prototypes.

Idea → structure → MVP.

No rewriting everything from scratch.

Lovable Cloud simplified my entire backend workflow

Before:

I had to set up Supabase, configure auth, manage hosting, wire everything manually.

Now:

Database, auth, storage, serverless functions.

All built in.

No infrastructure headaches.

Just build.

For simple MVPs, I don’t even leave Lovable anymore.

Chat Mode is underrated

I use Chat Mode for:

• Planning features before building

• Debugging weird issues

• Thinking through architecture

It doesn’t touch your code directly.

It shows the plan first.

For multi-step changes, you even get diff previews.

And now the Agent shows visible tasks while it’s working.

You can see exactly what it’s doing in real time.

Way more transparency than before.

Simple rule:

Use Chat to THINK.

Use Agent to BUILD.

You can build AI image generation directly into your app

Lovable integrates with models like Gemini and Stability AI through Lovable Cloud.

No separate AI infra.

No extra setup.

Just prompt → images generated inside your app.

I’ve used this for:

• AI avatar generators

• Custom illustration tools

This used to take days.

Now it’s part of the build.

Image → video is possible too

Lovable integrates with Replicate.

Add your Replicate API key.

Call their image or video models.

That’s it.

I built a quick MVP that turns product images into short promo videos.

It took an afternoon.

Two things most people still don’t know

MCP Servers

Lovable supports custom MCP servers now.

If you’re an advanced builder, you can extend Lovable way beyond default integrations.

ChatGPT App

Lovable launched a ChatGPT app.

You can now interact with Lovable directly from ChatGPT itself.

Quick TLDR

• Design View + Themes = global styling in one place

• Connectors = Supabase, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Firecrawl, Miro, and more

• Lovable Cloud = backend without the headache

• Chat Mode = plan and debug before building

• Visible Agent Tasks = full transparency

• AI image generation = built into your app

• Replicate = image-to-video inside your app

• MCP Servers = advanced extensibility

Lovable isn’t just a prototyping tool anymore.

It’s a full AI development platform.

If you tried it last year and bounced, try it again.

It’s not the same tool.

If you want, I can record a detailed video walkthrough showing how I use this end to end on a real project.

Just reply and let me know.

– Prajwal