Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for retrieving, by a smart setup system, a component configuration metadata file corresponding to an application, the component configuration metadata file including component metadata representing components that the application uses during runtime, parsing, by a parser of the smart setup system, the component configuration metadata file to provide a set of data objects, each corresponding to a respective component in the set of components, providing, by an emitter of the smart setup system, a set of checking scripts and a set of installation scripts by, for each component in the set of components, providing a checking script and an installation script using a respective data object, and executing, by the smart setup system, each checking script in the set of checking scripts, and in response, receiving a set of check results, each check results indicating whether pre-requisites of a respective component are met.