Checklist

This section gives you a checklist of things you need to do before launching your apps and includes common pitfalls to avoid.

Email Provider

Make sure you have set up your mail provider and domain correctly, so that the mails are sent out correctly and not marked as spam.

Things to check:

• Mail provider is set up correctly
• Domain for sending mails is verified in mail provider
• environment variables with the correct values for your email service.

Payments

Products and subscriptions

Make sure the products or subscriptions you want to offer are set up correctly in the payment provider. Also make sure to use the production mode of your payment provider as Stripe and Polar both offer test modes, that you should not use in production.

Things to check:

• All products and subscriptions are set up correctly in production mode
• All prices are set correctly

Webhoooks

If you have set up billing for your app, you need to set up webhooks for the payment provider to sync the purchases to your database.

If you have done this already, make sure you are using the production keys and environment variables. Also make sure that the webhook is pointing to your production url.

Things to check:

• You are using the production keys and environment variables from your payment provider
• Webhook is pointing to your production url

SEO

Especially for the marketing pages you want to make sure that the SEO is set up correctly, so that the pages can be found and indexed by the search engines.

Read the guides on metadata and sitemap to learn more.

Things to check:

• All pages have a meta title and description

• All pages that should be indexed are added to the sitemap

Legal pages

DirEasy has defined a few placeholder pages for legal pages, like privacy policy which you can edit in the /app/legal/* files.

Common legal pages are:

• Privacy policy
• Terms of service
• Create the legal pages that make sense for your kind of application.

The legal pages are added to the sitemap automatically, so you don't need to worry about that.

Things to check:

• Define all necessary legal pages

Deployment

Environment variables

Make sure that all the environment variables that are required for your app to work are set in your deployment environment.

Things to check:

• All environment variables are set correctly
• Make sure you are using production values for the environment variables

Region

When your have deployed your app to a cloud provider that runs your app (or at least the serverless functions) in a specific region (like Vercel does), you need to make sure that you have selected a region that is:

• Close to your database location
• Close to your target audience
• This is important as the latency between the user, the server and the database can have a big impact on the performance of your app.

When you target a global audience, prioritize the first point or choose a platform that has multiple regions. If you deploy to multiple regions, you want to have a globally distributed database too, as otherwise the latency can be too high from some regions.

Things to check:

• App is deployed to a region close to your database location
• App is deployed to a region close to your target audience