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Replit App Not Working? Why It Breaks After You Publish, and How to Fix It

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The supplied source text for this DEV Community article is dominated by embedded stylesheet code rather than article prose. The visible content includes CSS selectors targeting the page slug, media queries for narrow screens, and rules for an "articletag-418challenge" theme. Those rules set fonts such as Comic Sans MS, remove rounded corners, apply uppercase headings, rotate tags, and define separate light and dark theme treatments with specified background colors, borders, and box shadows. The dark theme block also defines a background image composed of linear gradients and an animation named retro-pan. Because the excerpt contains only this styling markup, it does not include the article's stated reasons why a Replit app breaks after publishing, nor any described fix. The title indicates the piece is about a Replit app not working after publish and how to fix it, but the body text needed to summarize those claims is absent from the provided source. Any summary of causes or remedies would therefore go beyond what the source text supports.

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The provided excerpt contains only page styling code, so it offers no source-grounded technical detail about why Replit apps break after publishing.

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