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Building Production-Grade Web Applications with Supabase

You're reading from   Building Production-Grade Web Applications with Supabase A comprehensive guide to database design, security, real-time data, storage, multi-tenancy, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630684
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Lorenz David Lorenz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Creating the Foundations of the Ticket System App
2. Chapter 1: Unveiling the Inner Workings of Supabase and Introducing the Book’s Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Supabase with Next.js 4. Chapter 3: Creating the Ticket Management Pages, Layout, and Components 5. Part 2: Adding Multi-Tenancy and Learning RLS
6. Chapter 4: Adding Authentication and Application Protection 7. Chapter 5: Crafting Multi-Tenancy through Database and App Design 8. Chapter 6: Enforcing Tenant Permissions with RLS and Handling Tenant Domains 9. Chapter 7: Adding Tenant-Based Signups, including Google Login 10. Part 3: Managing Tickets and Interactions
11. Chapter 8: Implementing Dynamic Ticket Management 12. Chapter 9: Creating a User List with RPCs and Setting Ticket Assignees 13. Chapter 10: Enhancing Interactivity with Realtime Comments 14. Chapter 11: Adding, Securing, and Serving File Uploads with Supabase Storage 15. Part 4: Diving Deeper into Security and Advanced Features
16. Chapter 12: Avoiding Unwanted Data Manipulation and Undisclosed Exposures 17. Chapter 13: Adding Supabase Superpowers and Reviewing Production Hardening Tips 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting directly to the database

Note

Building a raw database connection is helpful but complementary knowledge. In this book’s project, we will use the Supabase client and not a direct database connection.

At the end of the day, Supabase comes down to just being a Postgres database with additional services surrounding it like a galaxy. Hence, you can also directly access the database. But why would you ever want to do this?

When you work with platforms such as Supabase that make your life easier by providing data storage, file storage, authentication, and more, you often don’t get direct access to the underlying database or your access is extremely limited. The reason is that providers of such platforms often want to safeguard you and themselves from scrapping the project in a way that will break it irrevocably.

Having no or limited direct access to your database also means that you cannot extend it with additional features or use libraries of any kind...

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