Running the App

Learn how to run the app locally for development and testing.

Running the project

When we run the stack of a Makerkit application, we will need to run a few commands before:

  1. Remix: First, we need to run the Remix development server
  2. Supabase: We need to run the Supabase local environment using Docker
  3. Stripe CLI (optional): If you plan on interacting with Stripe, you are also required to run the Stripe CLI, which allows us to test the webhooks from Stripe against our local server.

Running the Remix development server

Run the following command from your IDE or from your terminal:

npm run dev

This command will start the Remix server at localhost:3000. If you navigate to this page, you should be able to see the landing page of your application:

Running the Supabase Local environment

To run the Supabase local environment, we need to first run Docker. Then, open a new terminal (or, better, from your IDE) and run the following command:s

npm run supabase:start

If everything is working correctly, you will see the output below:

> supabase start

Applying migration 20221215192558_schema.sql...
Seeding data supabase/seed.sql...
Started supabase local development setup.

         API URL: http://localhost:54321
          DB URL: postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:54322/postgres
      Studio URL: http://localhost:54323
    Inbucket URL: http://localhost:54324
      JWT secret: super-secret-jwt-token-with-at-least-32-characters-long
        anon key: ****************************************************
service_role key: ****************************************************

Now, we need to copy the anon key and service_role key values and add them to the .env file:

SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=****************************************************
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=****************************************************

When you need to stop the development environment, you can run the following command:

npm run supabase:stop

Supabase Studio UI

To access the Supabase Studio UI, open a new tab in your browser and navigate to http://localhost:54323.

Makerkit's template adds some data to your project by default for testing reasons. In fact, the data you see is used to run the Cypress E2E tests. This is why you'll see some pre-populated data in your project.

Running the Stripe CLI (optional)

Optionally, if you want to run Stripe locally (e.g., sending webhooks to your local server), you will also need to run the following command:

npm run stripe:listen

This command requires Docker, but you can alternatively install Stripe on your OS and change the command to use stripe directly.

The above command runs the Stripe CLI and will route webhooks coming from Stripe to your local endpoint. For example, in the Makerkit starter, this endpoint is /resources/stripe/webhook.

When running the command, it will print a webhook key used to sign the messages from Stripe. You will need to add this key to your local environment variables file as below:

STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET=<KEY>

The webhook printed should not change, so you may only need to do this the first time.

Signing In for the first time

You should now be able to sign in. To quickly get started, use the following credentials:

email = test@makerkit.dev
password = testingpassword

Email Confirmations

When signing up, Supabase sends an email confirmation to a testing account. You can access the InBucket testing emails using the following link, and can follow the links to complete the sign up process.


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