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Migration Guides
15 posts
Codex + Bubble Documentation: A Migration Workflow Guide
Most AI + Bubble migration demos skip the only part that matters: where the model finds out what's actually in your app. This walkthrough starts with the architecture, ends with working code.
DevOps After Bubble: CI/CD, Git, and Deployment for Former No-Code Teams
On Bubble, you clicked Preview to test and Deploy to launch. Custom code means Git, CI/CD, staging, and a production deployment process. Here is everything to set up — and the order to do it.
Migrating Bubble API Connectors: Rebuilding Every External Integration from Specs
A Bubble app may expose, for example, 8 API Connectors across 23 endpoints — each with auth, parameters, and JSON bodies to rebuild. How to extract and translate every integration.
Rebuilding Bubble's Frontend in React: The UI Migration Guide
Your backend migration is done. Your data is in PostgreSQL. Now comes the part that takes 40–50% of total migration time: rebuilding every page, conditional, repeating group, and popup in React.
Migration QA: How to Test That Your New App Actually Matches Bubble's Behavior
Your migration looks done. The features are built. Does the search return the same results? Does the payment flow handle the same edge cases? Parity testing answers: does this work like the original?
7 Bubble Database Design Mistakes That Make Migration 3x Harder
Your Bubble data model works. It will not work in PostgreSQL. These 7 design patterns are invisible problems today and expensive problems during migration. Fix them now or pay 3x later.
Investor Due Diligence for Bubble Apps: What They Ask and How to Prepare
The term sheet is on the table. The investor's technical advisor has three questions: Can I see the codebase? How does it scale? What if the vendor disappears? If your app runs on Bubble, read this.
The First 30 Days After Migration: A Post-Launch Stabilization Playbook
You launched on Friday. Monday: 12 support tickets. A scheduled job failed. Three users cannot log in. A webhook returned 404. This is not failure — it is the first 30 days. Here is the playbook.
Migrating Bubble Backend Workflows to Background Jobs: A Developer's Guide
Imagine an app with 18 backend workflows. Three run hourly. Two trigger on database changes. One chains 12 actions with nested conditions. None visible in a demo. All must work on day one — and shapes like this are what blow migration timelines.
The Bubble Plugin Replacement Guide: What Your Plugins Actually Do and How to Rebuild Them
You installed a Stripe plugin in 30 seconds. It handles subscriptions, prorations, dunning, and webhooks. Replacing it takes 2 to 4 weeks. Here are the 15 plugins that surprise every migration team.
Bubble Privacy Rules Are Business Logic — Here's How to Translate Them to Code
Your Bubble app has 40 privacy rules. Your developer sees a data model. The gap between those two views is where authorization bugs live — and where migrated apps break in production.
The Bubble Data Migration Playbook: Moving Your Data to SQL Without Losing Anything
Bubble exports CSVs. It does not export your schema, relationships, or data quality problems. The complete playbook for moving production data without the surprises that derail cutover weekend.
Your Bubble App Is a Black Box — Here's How to Document It Before You Hire a Developer
Bubble cannot export your workflows, API connectors, or app settings. When a developer, investor, or acquirer asks for your architecture docs, you have nothing to hand them. Here is how to fix that.
Why Your Bubble Migration Takes 3x Longer Than Quoted
Your agency quoted 10 weeks. You are now in week 22. This is not bad luck — it is a predictable failure pattern with a specific cause and a specific fix.
Bubble to Code in 2026: The Step-by-Step Migration Roadmap
Every migration guide says audit your Bubble app first. None explain what that means across all four architecture layers. Here is the complete roadmap — from extraction to production launch.