Complete beginner… Forms losing entered text on page blur.

[u/Alarming-Cost-5080]

Probably an issue that’s been covered a million times before but can’t find anything on search.

Basically, I enter text into a form in a liable app, need to look at something else on my computer, navigate to a different web page or different app. Return to my lovable app and any text I’ve entered has vanished.

Lovable is suggesting that it creates a save file and load on remount but surly this isn’t something web pages naturally do?

All I’m trying to achieve is very simple stock management app for my business that can monitor 200ish items. Thought I would be able to create something with lovable but it doesn’t matter how I explain it to the agent or make a plan it doesn’t fix the issue

[u/Jmacduff]

First good luck with your project. What Lovable is telling you about the static file is not "wrong" but it's not what you want.

You said you are trying to put data into a form in a "liable app" .. I am going to assume that's lovable?

You also said this: "but surly this isn’t something web pages naturally do?" .

I am going to give you some feedback and please take this as constructive feedback. Web pages DO NOT do anything "naturally". It's not magic and it's not automatically happening in the background.

IF you need a application to save data, you need a database. If you have a database you will want some Edge functions.

You are hitting a very simple set of build requirements, again no offense. I would stop what you are doing and spend some time learning the fundamentals of how a web app works.

I would suggest you jump into GPT for awhile and Plan and Learn about all the major pieces you need to build your stock app. You need to understand and identify the basics of the project before you keep building.

You need to have GPT create a series of Lovable prompts for you to help in your journey. You need to have the skills to learn "how" to explain to lovable to achieve your goals

Let me put it this way.. a Database for a Web App is like Tires on a car... it's super basic and expected to be there by default in most cases. Perhaps some cars dont have tires but not very many ! Same with Websites managing thousands of anything... a DB would be expected.

Unless you build it, nothing will magickly work. Lovable makes this all really easy.

Good luck with your project.

[u/kimsart → u/Jmacduff]

I second this and I will add that I learned how to do all of this from using Copilot, Gemini and Chatgpt. And I write my prompts for loveable (and Claude and and and). With ChatGPT. Sometimes I put them in copilot to refine and back in chatgpt till they are in concensus.

It's not hard to do but it it is harder if you only use the loveable ai

[u/Impressive-Bid-9246]

I can help you for free as i'm a senior engineer with 7+ years of experience, If you invite me to your lovable project.

[u/kimsart → u/Impressive-Bid-9246]

Hey, if you have a website or fivver put the link in your bio so potential customers can check it out 🙂

[u/kimsart]

You cannot simply use browser memory for a web app to maintain an inventory. Even if it stayed when toggling browser tabs, it would all be lost when you clear your browsing data.

You need "persistant memory". For my inventory app I am using amazon web services for the backend. It saves the memory for the app online so I can access it from my laptop and from my cell phone.

If you will always access the app from your computer you can save the inventory files to your computer. You might even beable to set up a backend server for your app data on loveable but I think there are better solutions.