First, make sure you set up your development environment.

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Super Fast Resources for Shipping:

For AI Logo Creator:

For Email SMTP Service:

Brevo

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Then, we are ready to clone the repo.

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Open your terminal and run the following command:

1

git clone https://github.com/shipmobilefast/shipmobilefast.git [your-project-name]
2

cd [your-project-name]
3

npm install
4

git remote remove origin
5

Now we are ready to start the development server. But don’t start it yet.

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That’s it! Our app is ready to be built.

But we are not done yet. We need to set up the app.json file.

1

First open your app.json file and find these lines:

app.json
 {
"expo": {
  "name": "My App",
  "slug": "my-app",
  "scheme": "com.myapp.app",
  ...
  "ios": {
    ...
    "associatedDomains": ["applinks:myapp.com"],
    "bundleIdentifier": "com.myapp.app",
    ...
  },
  "android": {
    ...
    "package": "com.myapp.app",
    ...
    "intentFilters": [
      {
        ...
        "data": [
          {
            "scheme": "https",
            "host": "myapp.com",
          },
          {
            "scheme": "com.myapp.app"
          }
        ],
      }
   ]
  },...
}
2

Find an app name for yourself. For example: Ship Mobile Fast.

3

Then create a slug for your app. For example: ship-mobile-fast.

4

Then create a bundle identifier for your app. For example: com.shipmobilefast.app.

I am using both same like: com.shipmobilefast.app.

5

Then replace the values with your own.

6

Result should look like this:

I am using shipmobilefast.com as my domain. If you don’t have one, you can delete the associatedDomains and data sections.

app.json
  "data": [
      {
        "scheme": "https",
        "host": "shipmobilefast.com",
      },
      // Don't delete this one 👇
      {
        "scheme": "com.shipmobilefast.app"
      }
    ]

  {
    "expo": {
      "name": "Ship Mobile Fast",
    "slug": "ship-mobile-fast",
    "scheme": "com.shipmobilefast.app",
    ...
    "ios": {
      ...
      "associatedDomains": ["applinks:shipmobilefast.com"],
      "bundleIdentifier": "com.shipmobilefast.app",
      ...
    },
    "android": {
      ...
      "package": "com.shipmobilefast.app",
      ...
      "intentFilters": [
        {
          ...
          "data": [
            {
              "scheme": "https",
              "host": "shipmobilefast.com",
            },
            {
              "scheme": "com.shipmobilefast.app"
            }
          ],
        }
      ]
    },
    ...
  }

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Supabase

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Now we need to set up Supabase.

1

cp .env.example .env
2

Now we need to set up the environment variables one by one. Start with Supabase.

3

Copy the URL and ANON KEY and paste them into the .env file.

Warning 1: Don’t forget to check .env file in the .gitignore file.

Warning 2: I strongly recommend to set up your own SMTP server. For example: Brevo. It is free up to 300 emails per day.

I am using it in all my projects.

You can use Resend too. It’s free 100 emails per day.

4

Now go to the Authentication section and add your app id: like: com.shipmobilefast.app.

5

Now open your codebase and let’s start your app.

  1. Open your terminal and run the following command:
// WITH EAS
eas build --profile development --platform ios

// WITHOUT EAS
npx expo prebuild
npx expo run:ios
// or
npx expo run:android
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Probably you will see the error. eas.json must be created.

7

Open your codebase and create eas.json file.

8

Add this code into eas.json file:

eas.json
 "build": {
  "development": {
    "developmentClient": true,
    "distribution": "internal",
     "ios": {
      "simulator": true
    }
  },
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Now run the following command again:

eas build --profile development --platform ios
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Now your app is ready to be built. 🎉

  npx expo start

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Troubleshooting

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If you don’t set your Supabase URL and ANON KEY in the .env file, you will see an error.

watchman watch-del-all

If you are using macOS, you can also install watchman using Homebrew.

brew install watchman