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This section walks through the main actions you can take while managing your projects, including viewing recent work, renaming or deleting projects, downloading them for local development, or duplicating a full setup to start fresh with minimal effort.

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View a list of your projects

Once you’re logged in to Bolt, you can see all your projects in one place, making it easy to switch between them.

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From the homepage

To view your projects from the homepage, follow these steps: Once you’re logged in to Bolt, you can see all your projects in one place, making it easy to switch between them. To view your projects, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to Bolt.
  2. Go to the Bolt homepage.
  3. Hover over the left side of the screen to open the menu.
  4. View a list of your projects under Your Chats.
  5. Click a project name to open that project in Bolt.
Use the search bar at top to find a specific project quickly.

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Working in a project

Inside a Bolt project, you can quickly review your recent projects. Items are sorted with the newest first, and older ones follow in sequence. You can also use the search bar to find something specific.
Screenshot of selecting recent project in Bolt title name menu.
To see your list of recent projects, follow these steps:
  1. Log in and open a project.
  2. Click the project title.
  3. Hover over Open recent project.
  4. Find your project of interest.
  5. Click the project and Bolt will switch you into it.

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Create a new project

To create a new Bolt project, submit a new prompt on the Bolt homepage. This will automatically add a new project to your project list and will autogenerate a project title.

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Rename or edit a project title

Screencapture of renaming project title
  1. Open the project.
  2. Click the project name in the top left of your screen.
  3. Click Rename.
  4. Make your changes.
  5. Click the checkmark to save the change.

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Delete a project

To delete a project, you need to delete both the chat and the associated project in StackBlitz.

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Delete a project chat

Screencapture of trash icon on project title hover
  1. On the Bolt homepage, hover over the left side of the screen or click Open sidebar to view a list of your projects.
  2. Hover over the project you want to delete.
  3. Click the trash icon next to the project name that appears.
  4. Click Delete to confirm.

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Delete a project in StackBlitz

  1. Log in to your StackBlitz account.
  2. Click Collections.
  3. Click Bolt collection.
  4. Click the menu icon for the project you want to delete.
  5. Click Delete project.

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Download projects and work with them locally

To run the project locally, you’ll need Node.js installed. To download and run a project on your local machine, follow these steps: Screencapture of downloading project in Bolt
  1. Log in to your project.
  2. In the top left of your screen, click the project title, then click Export > Download.
  3. A .zip of your project will download.
  4. Unzip the project.
  5. Navigate to the project in your terminal and run: 
    npm install && npm run dev

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Duplicate projects

Duplicating your project creates a fresh copy of the project in Bolt. It retains all of your code and settings, except for GitHub and Netlify integration settings.

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Database duplication

If the project you’re duplicating uses a Bolt database, your new duplicated project will copy the database schema but not the data. If the project you’re duplicating uses a Supabase database, you’ll have the option of either creating a new Bolt database (which copies the schema only) or connecting to the same Supabase project as the original. Uncheck Use Bolt database if you want to maintain your existing Supabase project connection.
Screenshot of DNS records management screen within Cloud settings.
If you want to keep your data in the duplicated project, stay connected to your Supabase database. However, avoid making changes to the same database from both your original and duplicated projects. After duplication, manage Supabase database changes from only one project.

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How to duplicate a project

To duplicate a project, follow these steps:
Duplicating your project clears your chat history.
Screencapture of duplicating project in Bolt
  1. Log in to your project.
  2. In the top left of your screen, click the project title, then click Duplicate.
  3. If you have integrations active in the project, Bolt displays a dialog that confirms which integration settings it will copy. Click Duplicate in the dialog to continue.
  4. Bolt creates a new copy of the project, with an empty chat history.
If you want information from your chat history to be available in the new project, generate a summary in the old project and upload it in the new project. Get Bolt to summarize your chat history in your old project:
  1. In the bottom-left corner of the chatbox, click the plus icon, then click Discussion Mode.
  2. Enter the following prompt: Please generate a short summary of our conversation so far.
  3. Check that the AI response is accurate and contains everything you need.
  4. Copy the response out of Bolt and save it as a .txt or .md file.
In your new project, add the chat summary:
  1. In the bottom-left corner of the chatbox, click the plus icon, then click Discussion Mode.
  2. Click the plus icon again, then click Attach file.
  3. Provide a prompt such as: 
    The attached file is a summary of previous discussion about this project.
Please use it when working on future changes.
  4. Press Enter to upload the file and your prompt.

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Transfer a project to another account

There isn’t a direct way to transfer a project between accounts, though you can still duplicate a project from one account to another if you have the project URL and the visibility is set to Secret or Public. Keep in mind that database information is not copied over. If your project used a Bolt database, you can create a new one when duplicating, but it will not include the previous schema or data. If your project was connected to a Supabase database, you can reconnect to it from the new account. Follow these steps to duplicate a project between accounts:
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Make the project visible

  1. Log in to Bolt and open the project you want to share.
  2. Click the gear icon at the top center of the screen.
  3. Click All project settings.
  4. Under Project Visibility, click Secret to make the project visible to anyone with the link. Hosting Visibility Pn
  5. Copy the project URL from your browser’s address bar.
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Open the project in the new account

  1. Log in to Bolt using the account where you want to duplicate the project.
  2. Paste the project URL into the browser.
  3. Make any small change to the project. Once you do, it will save as a new copy in your project list.
  4. If required, prompt Bolt to create a new database, or connect to a Supabase project.

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Continue in StackBlitz

If you decide you want to stop working via the Bolt chatbox interface, you can continue working on your project in StackBlitz’s IDE. StackBlitz is Bolt’s parent company, and accounts are automatically linked. To open your Bolt project in the StackBlitz web IDE, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to your project.
  2. In the top left of your screen, click the project title, then click Export > Open in StackBlitz.
  3. The project will open in StackBlitz.
Learn more about the StackBlitz IDE in StackBlitz’s documentation.

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Open a StackBlitz project in Bolt

There are two ways to open StackBlitz projects in Bolt:
  1. Click Open in Bolt located in the upper-left corner of any StackBlitz project screen.
  2. Manually enter the following URL pattern in your browser (replacing the all caps slug with your own project slug): https://bolt.new/~/STACKBLITZ_PROJECT_SLUG_HERE

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Open a public GitHub project in Bolt

You can open any public GitHub project in Bolt by putting bolt.new in front of the GitHub repository URL. For example: bolt.new/~/github.com/mantinedev/remix-template. To connect your GitHub account to Bolt and sync projects, refer to GitHub for version control.