Supabase Beta March 2022

Summary

Supabase announced several major platform updates for March 2022, introducing global edge deployments for JavaScript and TypeScript functions developed and tested locally. Database querying expanded to support GraphQL through an open-source, portable Postgres extension. Supabase Realtime received support for multiplayer and presence to enable collaborative applications, alongside enterprise and scale capabilities including Point-In-Time-Recovery, SLAs, premium support, a Prometheus endpoint, and an observability dashboard. To enhance security, an integration with GitHub secret scanning automatically notifies developers and rolls exposed service_role keys found in public repositories. Additional updates include the PostgREST 10 pre-release, Next-JS auth helpers, new OAuth providers, and full remote hiring across engineering, marketing, and human resources.

Takeaways

1. 1

   JavaScript and TypeScript edge functions can be developed and tested locally before deploying globally to Supabase.

2. 2

   GraphQL querying is implemented directly inside Supabase as an open-source, portable Postgres extension.

3. 3

   GitHub secret scanning integration notifies users and automatically rolls service_role keys if they are pushed to GitHub repositories.