Your First Step to Building with Lovable
✺ Credit Awareness
Read errors before re-prompting
The beginner reflex
Something breaks → you type "fix it" → 8 credits later, still broken.
The pro move
Something breaks → you read the error → you prompt with context.
What "with context" looks like
Bad: "It's broken, fix it." Good: "I'm getting this error in the console: [paste error]. It started after the last change to the checkout page. Here's what I expected vs. what actually happens: [...]."
Where to find errors
- The red error banner in the preview
- The browser console (right-click → inspect → console)
- The Lovable chat itself often surfaces them
operator note
80% of the time, the error message tells the AI exactly what's wrong. You're not debugging — you're forwarding the message.