# Supabase Alpha October 2020

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Nov 2, 2020

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Eight months into building Supabase, the team released product updates focused on stability, reliability, and performance while preparing to transition from Alpha to Beta. The release introduces supabase-js version 1.0, incorporating extensive community feedback to deliver major developer experience improvements across client libraries. Platform interface updates include tabs and full-screen mode for the SQL Editor, alongside new keyboard shortcuts to help power users navigate and manipulate tables rapidly. For user authentication, Supabase added magic link capabilities, enabling passwordless login flows for both new and existing users either as a standalone method or alongside passwords. Under continuous improvement efforts, the team converted realtime-js to TypeScript, heavily optimized dashboard routing performance, and established a repository to benchmark all integrated open source tools.

## Context

Eight months into development, Supabase prepared to move from an Alpha status to Beta, focusing on platform performance, reliability, and stability while responding to community feature requests.

## Approach / What changed

The release ships supabase-js 1.0 with developer experience improvements, upgrades the SQL Editor with tabs and full-screen view, introduces table keyboard shortcuts, adds magic link authentication, converts realtime-js to TypeScript, optimizes dashboard routes, and initiates benchmarking of open-source dependencies.

## Takeaways

- Supabase released supabase-js version 1.0, incorporating community feedback to improve client library developer experience.
- Magic links were introduced for authentication, allowing new and existing users to log in standalone or alongside passwords.
- The realtime-js library was converted to TypeScript, and a dedicated repository was created to benchmark open source tools used by Supabase.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [TypeScript](https://yomu.fyi/topic/typescript)

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