Caching supabase start

[Floriferous]

I'd like to make supabase start faster in my github actions CI. I'm running the following workflow in github actions:

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup Node.js 22
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 22
          cache: 'npm'

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: Setup Supabase
        uses: supabase/setup-cli@v1
        with:
          version: latest

      - name: Start Supabase
        run: supabase start

And the last step supabase start takes about 3min 30secs. I'm running supabase start (and not supabase db start) to be able to retrieve a service role key with supabase status afterwards.

Is it possible to somehow reduce the time it takes for this startup, with caching maybe? Has someone set this up properly already? Would be nice to add this to the documentation if so.

[marcusschiesser]

have the same issue, i am using:

      - name: Test (pnpm)
        run: |
          # Start local Supabase 
          supabase db start 

          # Export env vars for Next.js/tests
          supabase status -o env > .env
          source .env

          # run tests
          pnpm test

my tests don't have the env variables - if i use supabase start instead of supabase db start, they have