V0 project not displaying the same outside of V0

[joshs6071 (Josh85688)]

I watched a well know dev youtuber yesterday, explaining that his V0 codebase did not display the same when viewed outside of V0. (eg, when importing the V0 code into another IDE). He said that V0 must not be running the exact code that is exported from V0, but must be “adding something extra” in V0’s backend that is not included in the app code. Is this the case and if so what steps should i take to reproduce my apps V0 Preview in another IDE?

[system]

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