Supabase Beta June 2021

Summary

Supabase announced a series of platform updates, documentation additions, and tooling enhancements for June 2021 ahead of its scheduled Launch Week. Developers can now provision a Postgres database directly through a new Vercel integration and enable authentication using Discord logins. Supabase Storage added support for upsert operations alongside public buckets that allow unauthenticated file access. The web dashboard introduced a restart button for debugging and a table policy editor with templates to configure Row Level Security. Additional backend improvements include timestamps for PostgREST error logs, an OpenAPI mode patch ignoring anonymous privileges for Prisma users, and an XSS fix in the Auth0 Next.js library.

Context

Supabase prepared new platform features, documentation guides, and developer tooling ahead of their July 2021 Launch Week.

Approach / What changed

The team integrated Postgres deployments into Vercel, added Discord authentication, launched public storage buckets and upsert capabilities, introduced a dashboard restart button and Row Level Security policy editor, updated PostgREST logging and OpenAPI modes, and resolved an Auth0 Next.js XSS bug.

Takeaways

• A new Vercel integration allows developers to deploy a Supabase Postgres database directly from their Vercel accounts.
• Supabase Storage added support for upsert operations and public storage buckets that do not require user logins for access.
• PostgREST error logs now include timestamps, and PostgREST openapi-mode was patched to ignore anonymous privileges for OpenAPI output.

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