What I learned from using Lovable for 8 months to build beautiful, standardized, and easy-to-maintain websites

This weekend I decided to upgrade my website, and in just a few hours I was able to completely refresh my visual identity using Lovable. Clean, structured, with an AI-generated hero video — and without writing CSS by hand. But before getting there, I had to solve a problem most people ignore in vibe coding: Without structure, you build fast. And refactor twice as much later. Here’s what I’ve learned using Lovable since August 2025 — and the template I created so I never have to start from scratch again. ⸻ The trap of vibe coding without a framework Lovable is amazing. You describe what you want, it generates it. In minutes, you have something visual working. The problem shows up around prompt 5 — when you haven’t defined colors, fonts, folder structure, or coding standards. Lovable starts making decisions for you — and not always the same ones across prompts. Result: hardcoded colors everywhere, duplicated components, and a structure no one can maintain. The solution is not to use less