Supabase Beta September 2022

Summary

Supabase’s September 2022 update centers on reducing technical debt and clearing its backlog after five Launch Weeks. The team ran three Kaizen weeks focused respectively on QA and testing, documentation, and issue backlog and automation, closing over 250 open issues and 50 pull requests while pausing feature development. Product releases included Auth UI, a pre-built React component for Supabase Auth with custom themes and extensible styles, plus an open-source Postgres WASM release with Snaplet for running Postgres in a browser through an embeddable Linux Virtual Machine. Security changes to Dashboard database interactions simplify permissions and reduce the security surface area; they were scheduled for automatic application in November or could be run earlier through the Dashboard. Other updates covered Edge Functions, documentation, migration tooling, and community projects.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Three Kaizen weeks closed over 250 open issues and 50 pull requests while focusing on QA and testing, documentation, and issue backlog and automation.

2. 2

   Auth UI is a pre-built React component for Supabase Auth that supports custom themes and extensible styles.

3. 3

   Dashboard security changes simplify database permissions and reduce the security surface area; automatic application was planned for November, with an earlier Dashboard option available.