Checklist

Create Supabase project

Why it's necessary?

Creating a Supabase project is the foundational step to set up your database, authentication, and storage services in the cloud. This will serve as the backend for your SaaS application.

How to do it?

• Go to Supabase and sign up for an account if you don't already have one.
• Click on the Create a new project button.
• Enter your project name, region, and organization.
• Click on the Create project button.

Migrate database

Why it's necessary?

Pushing database migrations ensures that your database schema in the remote Supabase instance is configured to match TurboStarter's requirements. This step is crucial for the application to function correctly.

How to do it?

You basically have two possibilities of doing a migration:

(Optional) Set up Firebase project

Why it's necessary?

Setting up a Firebase project is optional, and depends on which features your app is using. For example, if you want to use Analytics with Google Analytics, setting up a Firebase project is required.

How to do it?

Please refer to the Firebase project section on how to set up and configure your Firebase project.

Set up web backend API

Why it's necessary?

Setting up the backend is necessary to have a place to store your data and to have other features work properly (e.g., auth, billing).

How to do it?

Please refer to the web deployment checklist on how to set up and deploy the web app backend to production.

Environment variables

Why it's necessary?

Setting the correct environment variables is essential for the application to function correctly. These variables include API keys, database URLs, and other configuration details required for your app to connect to various services.

How to do it?

Use our .env.example files to get the correct environment variables for your project. Then add them to your eas.json file under correct profile.

{
  "profiles": {
    "base": {
      "env": {
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_AUTH_PASSWORD": "true",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_AUTH_MAGIC_LINK": "false",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_THEME_MODE": "system",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_THEME_COLOR": "orange"
      }
    },
    "production": {
      "extends": "base",
      "autoIncrement": true,
      "env": {
        "APP_ENV": "production",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_SITE_URL": "https://turbostarter.dev",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL": "https://turbostarter.supabase.co",
        "EXPO_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY": "<supabase_key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Build your app

Why it's necessary?

Building your app is necessary to create a standalone application bundle that can be published to the stores.

How to do it?

You basically have two possibilities to build a bundle for your app:

Submit to stores

Why it's necessary?

Submitting your app to the stores is necessary to make it available to your users. That's the only way to get your app in front of your users.

How to do it?

To submit your app to the stores, you will first need to get your app bundles. If you ran previous step locally you already should have the .ipa (for iOS) and .aab (for Android) files in your app folder.

If you used Github Actions to build your app, you can find the results in the Builds tab of your EAS project. Download the artifacts and save them on your local machine.

Then, you would need to upload the bundles to the stores, here's how to do it:

Send to review

Why it's necessary?

Sending your app to review is necessary to make it available to your users. That's the only way to get your app in front of your users, because you must follow the stores' guidelines and get your app approved.

How to do it?

You need to send your app to review to the stores, you can do it by going to the App Store Connect and Google Play Console.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to automate this step, so you'll need to do it manually.

Then, you would have to wait for the review process to complete. This process can take from a few hours to a few days, depending on the stores and the type of app you have.

When you receive the approval from the stores (by email or by push notification), you'll be able to publish your app on the stores.