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Supabase Beta Sept 2021

2021-10-04

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Supabase Beta Sept 2021

Did you know it's been 2 years since the first commit to Realtime, our real-time engine for Postgres? Before we even existed as a company! We spent this month updating docs and content, improving UX, and onboarding Developer Advocates!

Hackathon v2

To kick off Hacktoberfest, another Supabase Hackathon is happening right now. You've got another 7 days to be in to win a limited edition t-shirt.

Hackathon

Abort Requests

We added support for AbortController in our Javascript library so that you can abort long-running queries. [Docs]

Abort Requests

Improved table management

We've made a number of changes to the Dashboard to expose some great features of PostgreSQL including:

Column types

We've improved the column Type field so that it supports your custom types.

Column types

Is Unique

We've made it simple to add a unique constraint when creating or editing a table.

Is Unique

Edit columns

By popular request, you can now view all columns in a table at a glance and edit them in bulk.

Edit columns

Cross-schema relationships

We updated our grid to support relationships across multiple schemas.

Cross-schema relationships

Improved Auth Docs

We've revamped the Auth docs - The docs are now broken down into Authentication and Authorization, and organized alongside our Deep Dive series.

Auth Docs

Low Code demo

Low Code demo, Using Supabase with Clutch.io - @_dijonmusters ran a session at General Assembly showing how to use these two tools together to create apps using a low code approach.

Community

There was a lot of new content this month.

Videos

Twitter

We hit 16.5k followers. Follow us there for advance frontend tips and 👁️⚡👁️

Twitter

GitHub

Not far from 20K stars: github.com/supabase/supabase

GitHub

Source: repository.surf/supabase

Discord

Our Discord is growing fast. Come hangout with 3500+ developers building on Supabase today: discord.supabase.com

Discord

Hiring

We're Hiring SREs. We're fully remote and we love Open Source. See open roles.

hiring

Coming Next

We're warming up for another Launch Week! Last time was "Launch Week II: the SQL". We're going to need another month to come up with a good pun again, so we'll aim for November.

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