What is Supabase?

In 2011, Google launched Firebase, a software platform designed to help developers create and deploy apps. In 2020, the industry was met with an introduction to Supabase, an open-source alternative to Firebase which offered many of the same features.

Supabase markets itself as a direct replacement for Firebase, providing similar services and enabling you to pick and choose which ones you need. But is it the perfect solution for web development? Here's an introduction to Supabase to help you decide.

Supabase's core features include database, authentication, file storage and auto-generated APIs. In other words, Supabase promises to offer everything you need to build a mobile app. For example, Supabase offers real-time data synchronization between your database and mobile devices.

Supabase vs Firebase?

While Supabase is still in its infancy and has not yet received the years of support and updates that Google's Firebase has, the Supabase team strives to be just as good as, if not better than, Firebase.

The fact that Supabase is still relatively new should be taken into account because it has not reached the same level of popularity or support as Firebase.

It provides all of the backend services you need to build a product, including payment processing and customer support. You can use it completely, or just the services you require.

In this video, I'll quickly look at how to setup a supabase app with Vue.js

Links:

Github repo - github.com/zernonia/supabase-vue-3 Full guide - supabase.com/docs/guides/with-vue-3