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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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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

Adding middleware inside Postgres for each API request

This is one of the most unknown and underrated features that Supabase provides. The ability to add an API middleware will allow you to control the actual API request before it hits – for example, by implementing rate limiting. So, at its core, you have fine-grained control over API calls.

This consists of two parts:

  1. Creating a public RPC function that returns tickets from a specific tenant
  2. Safeguarding the RPC with PostgREST middleware

Let’s say our ticket system has its own API for external developers to interact with tickets. For example, we want to allow developers to access tickets of a tenant at something like /api/tenant_id/tickets. Certainly, you can just add Route Handlers in the project and implement such an API with the usual code logic. But you can also use the existing PostgREST service to do that. This means there are no additional roundtrips on your server, and you don’t...

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