Deployment Checklist

Ready to go live? Take a look at the checklist below and assess whether your app is production-ready.

Basic Checklist

This checklist is just a guide before you deploy to production. Some items may not be applicable to some projects.

Environment Variables

• Are your Environment Variables complete?

  • Publicly Accessible Values (NEXT_PUBLIC_*)

  • Database Connection and Credentials

  • Payments (Stripe, etc.)

  • Email Credentials

  • Vercel Platform Details

  • Google Analytics

  • Next-Auth Configuration

package.json

• Is your App Name correct?

• Is your App Version correct?

Configuration

• Is your Tailwind configuration correct?

• Are your App configurations correct?

• Are there any console outputs being logged?

Build

• Make sure dependencies can be installed via npm install command

• Make sure that there are no vulnerability results from npm audit command

• Running npm run build results to ignorable errors/warnings or no errors at all

Database

• Make sure that database schema can be generated via npx prisma generate command

• Migrate database schema from development database to production database via npx prisma migrate deploy command

Payments - Stripe

• Is your account in production mode?

• Have you made a test subscription purchase on your platform?

Legal - GDPR, Terms

• Does your app have a Data Privacy Policy?

• Does your app have Terms of Service?

Additional Server-related Checklist

• Have you seen this checklist?