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Supabase

Supabase is a hosted Postgres development platform for building production web, mobile, and AI applications, built from open-source components and available for self-hosting or local development. It provides a managed Postgres database, authentication and authorization, Row Level Security, auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, realtime database-change subscriptions over WebSockets, Edge Functions and serverless database functions, file storage, and an AI vector and embeddings toolkit. Its architecture combines PostgreSQL with services including PostgREST for REST APIs, GoTrue for JWT-based authentication and session management, Realtime for converting PostgreSQL replication changes to JSON broadcasts, Storage for S3-compatible file management with Postgres permissions, and pg_graphql for GraphQL access. It also provides dashboard tools such as table and SQL editors, policy management, deployment workflows, and official client libraries for JavaScript, Flutter, Swift, and Python, with additional community libraries for other languages.

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What Supabase is used for

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  • Backend database used to store application data.

  • Application backend used by the WhatsApp CRM.

  • A backend platform used for application databases, authentication, cloud functions, triggers, access policies, and deployment. The video highlights its integration with AI coding tools and use as the backend for web applications.

  • A Postgres back-end platform that reduces back-end complexity by providing database support, authentication, real-time capabilities, storage, edge functions, and APIs. It includes an interface for defining schemas and managing data, automatically exposes a generated REST API, and can be used as a managed cloud service or self-hosted.

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  • An open-source backend platform built around a dedicated Postgres database and positioned as an alternative to Firebase. It adds authentication, REST and GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, file storage, edge functions, and vector tooling, and can be hosted or self-hosted.

Videos mentioning Supabase

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