Supabase

Supabase is a popular open-source platform (Firebase alternative) that provides many interesting services, like, Authentication, Postgres Database, Realtime database, Edge functions, REST API, GraphQL, and so on.

Shipped supports Supabase Auth with these methods:

- magic link auth - email and password - SSO (social login)

Due to the many changes that affect the codebase of Shipped, there is a dedicated branch called supabase. If you intend to use Supabase Auth, move to the supabase branch and start working on top of it.

Move to the supabase branch:

terminal

git checkout supabase

Supabase get started

To use Supabase, start creating a new Supabase project at https://database.new/

Environment variables

Once done, you need to set two environment variables:

.env

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=""

You can retrieve the values from https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/settings/api

We have dedicated guides about the setup of Supabase Auth:

• Supabase Magic Link

• Supabase Email & Password

• Supabase Authentication Flow