Ask HN: Do you need a Lovable.dev for Back end API?

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a year ago

I have been using Lovable.dev and bolt.new to build personal website and a Saas landing page recently. The ability of these product are truely amazing! I used only 1 day to complete things that would cost me 4-5 days before.

However, with the project being much more complicated, I found that there's some limitation using lovable to build complex full-stack apps. After all, codebases built by lovable/bolt are not real full-stack apps, e.g. I couldn't write independent Node.js api. I have to put all traditional backend logic into frontend code, including database CRUD, third-party api/sdk and so on.

The DB CRUD is fine, cuz Supabase has great integration with that. But as for third party integration, especially Node SDK, they are unavailable in React framework, which is really inconveninent for me.

Therefore, I am thinking of why there's no lovable.dev for backend apis. Ideally I could generate api code, test and deploy them. Then use them together with lovable/bolt.new to make more powerful apps.

Do you think that would work for you?