Unveiling the Inner Workings of Supabase and Introducing the Book’s Project

In 2000, I started playing around with HTML, which had been around for 10 years at the time. Google, which was then only two years old, was already becoming popular. Back then, the internet was slow and expensive, and my connection was a snail-paced 56 Kbps, miles behind today’s lightning-fast 1 Gbps, which is 18,000 times faster.

However, it was a great time to start with web development as the field wasn’t overly complex. Making dynamic websites typically meant using PHP and MySQL, and things such as “JavaScript Frameworks” did not even exist yet. At that time, authentication was simpler but not very secure, and HTTPS (which is represented by the padlock icon in your browser) was rare. To log in, you had to enter a username and password on a website, and the server created a session cookie to connect you to your account on the backend.

Fast forward to today, when starting...