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Glossary

Rollback

Restoring a previous working version of your app after a change goes wrong.

Definition

Rollback means putting your app back to an earlier, known-good version after a bad deploy or edit. Instead of frantically patching a broken release, you restore the last version that worked and then fix forward when you are ready. It is the safety net that makes frequent AI-driven changes acceptable for real internal tools.

Why it matters

AI assistants can break something while trying to help. A prompt that “just tweaks the form” might wipe a calculation or change who can see a page. For finance and ops tools, downtime or wrong numbers hurt. Rollback lets you host and update boldly: share the app with the team, keep iterating, and undo a mistake in minutes instead of rebuilding from memory.

How Croft fits

Croft includes one-click rollback on deploys so a bad AI change does not strand your team. Combined with continuous encrypted off-site backups and nightly snapshots of app data, you can restore the app experience and the information it holds. That is part of private hosting for vibe-coded apps, not an add-on you wire yourself. See Under the hood and Security.

Related terms

  • Version control A history of changes to your app so you can see what changed and restore an earlier version.
  • Backups Continuous encrypted copies of your app data so you can recover after mistakes or failures.
  • SQLite A file-based app database. On Croft it is continuously backed up off-site so your team data lasts.
  • Deploy an app Putting your app onto a server so people can open it at a real URL.
  • AI-built app An app whose code was written by an AI assistant from your prompts, then run as real software.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does rollback mean for an app?

It means restoring a previous deploy so the app behaves like it did before the bad change.

Is rollback the same as a backup?

Related but not the same. Rollback usually restores the app version you deployed. Backups protect the data the app stores. You often want both.

Why do AI-built apps need rollback?

Because changes arrive quickly from prompts. Rollback makes those changes reversible when something important breaks.

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