How can I safely remove Supabase and Drizzle from create-t3-turbo and use external APIs instead?

[yousef-zeiad]

Hey everyone,

First off, huge thanks for this amazing starter — the monorepo setup with Next.js + Expo is exactly what I need.

However, for my use case, I don’t need Supabase or Drizzle since I’ll be using external REST APIs instead of a local DB. I still want to keep:

• Monorepo structure
• Next.js for web
• Expo for mobile
• tRPC for client side(i dont think i need it)
• Shared packages like api, ui, types

I just want to remove Supabase and Drizzle without breaking the app, and replace any data fetching logic with calls to my own APIs (e.g. using fetch or axios in tRPC procedures).

My questions:

1. What’s the safest way to remove Drizzle and Supabase across the repo?
2. Are there any interdependencies I should watch out for in packages/api, tsconfig, or the Expo app?
3. Is there a "minimal setup" branch/fork without DB/Supabase I can start from?
4. Do i need to keep auth proxy?

I’d appreciate any guidance, and I’m happy to contribute a PR/docs once I get it working.

Thanks in advance!