Get your Bolt app ready for real users.

Common failure modes

These turn up in fast-built apps whatever they were built with, once an app grows faster than anyone reviews it. Most can be fixed where the app is.

1. Keys in browser code

   Environment variables with a browser prefix, such as VITE_ in a Vite project, are written into the JavaScript every visitor downloads. Only public keys belong there; secret keys belong on a server.

2. Database rules

   When the app talks to a database such as Supabase straight from the browser, the database's own access rules are all that stands between one user and another's data. They need to exist, and they need to be right.

3. Checks that happen only in the interface

   Validation, limits and permissions enforced in the page can be skipped by calling the API directly. They have to be repeated where the data is changed.

4. Dependencies

   A generated project pins whatever versions were current on the day, and sometimes packages it does not need. Left alone, those become the outdated and vulnerable part of the app.

5. Deploys without a way back

   Deploying straight from the editor is quick. Production also needs a separate environment to try changes in, a way to roll back, and alerts when something fails.

6. Code that is hard to change

   Large generated files and repeated logic make every later change slower and riskier. A little structure early saves a rewrite later.

What the audit checks on a Bolt app

The code and product audit reads the code, not only what is visible from outside, and ranks every finding by what it means for the business. On a Bolt app, that includes:

• Every key and secret in the shipped bundle and in the environment.
• Database access rules, checked against who should see what.
• Server-side checks on every route that changes data.
• Dependencies: what is used, what is outdated and what is known to be vulnerable.
• Hosting, environments, deploys and rollback.
• The structure of the code, and what will be expensive to change.
• Your product and business goals, from an interview, so every finding is ranked by what it means for the business.

Production-ready where you are

The default recommendation is to harden the app as it is. A move to a different stack is recommended only when the audit shows it is worth the cost.

Run the free check on your Bolt app.

It scans what your app already shows the world, such as keys in its JavaScript, its headers, HTTPS and versions, and Aaron reviews the result within two business days. It runs only after you confirm by email and show the app is yours.