Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

• supabase

  767 65,869 10.0 TypeScript

  The open source Firebase alternative.

  

That's a fair criticism. We've looked closely at everyone's comments and it's obvious that we need to make self-hosting Supabase much easier. This has always been the intention and has always been possible: everything except our dashboard has OSI-compatible licenses, so anyone can run the same back end that we do.

But "technically possible" isn't good enough. It needs to be straightforward, and we're going to invest some effort into making it so. The only thing I'll say in our defence is that this didn't happen for business reasons, i.e. there's no secret plan to hobble the self-hosted version. Quite the opposite, we want the open-source tech to be super easy for everyone to run. We only want people to pay us because our paid product is valuable, not because the free tech is somehow hard to use! We only introduced billing yesterday, and we aren't charging anyone yet. But from the feedback, I understand why this wasn't obvious. It needs to be much clearer how to put the pieces together and we're going to prioritise this now.

I have started updating [0] our docs in this PR [1]. We will merge this tomorrow morning as part of our CLI release [2]. The Docker setup in this PR is 100% compatible with every project on Supabase, and we also link to several of the one-click tools which we have deployed into the AWS and Digital Ocean marketplaces. All this still needs improvement, this is just a first step. If anyone still has trouble setting up a self-hosted version of Supabase, please contact me (my email is in my profile) and I'll personally do whatever it takes to get you up and running. Then I'll update the docs some more so those difficulties won't happen again. Hopefully with a few more iterations this will be as smooth as it should be. Certainly the tech is there and ready to go!

[0] Preview: https://docs-git-docs-self-hosting-supabase.vercel.app/docs/...

[1] PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/999

[2] CLI release: https://supabase.io/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week#wednesday-cl...

• realtime

  54 6,460 9.0 Elixir

  Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets

  

Future:

This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n

[1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week

[2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/

[3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

[4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker

[5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

  [6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api

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• postgrest

  100 22,282 9.7 Haskell

  REST API for any Postgres database

  

Future:

This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n

[1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week

[2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/

[3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

[4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker

[5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

  [6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api

• storage

  19 647 8.3 TypeScript

  S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

  

Future:

This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n

[1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week

[2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/

[3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

[4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker

[5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

  [6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api

• benchmarks

  7 41 6.0 SCSS

  Infrastucture benchmarks (by supabase)

  

• fastify

  124 30,639 9.4 JavaScript

  Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

  

A shoutout to Fastify[1] here. It has lived up to its claim of being one of the fastest Node frameworks from our initial benchmarking. We plan to add the benchmarking scripts to our benchmarking repo[2] soon.

The entire Fastify ecosystem (and associated modules like pino) has a focus on performance which is great. For example, the file-handling middleware[3] uses Node streams by default, instead of buffering files in memory. This made it easy to use streams across our entire codebase. Besides performance, this keeps the footprint small which ensures consistent performance even for users on our smallest server configuration.

[1] https://www.fastify.io/

• fastify-multipart

  3 439 7.5 JavaScript

  Multipart support for Fastify

  

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• auth

  45 1,165 9.4 Go

  A JWT based API for managing users and issuing JWT tokens (by supabase)

  

Thanks!

> magic link

We have this one available here:

https://supabase.io/docs/reference/javascript/auth-signin#si...

We don't have OTP, but that's a great idea - something we can add to GoTrue (https://github.com/supabase/gotrue)

• gotrue

  22 3,713 3.6 Go

  An SWT based API for managing users and issuing SWT tokens.

  

We run a fork of GoTrue, using the migrations in this PR:

https://github.com/netlify/gotrue/pull/254

tbh, our fork[1] has deviated a bit from Netlify's so we need to spend some time with them upstream'ing any changes that they would want to merge (perhaps magic links, Azure logins, OAuth scopes).

Long term, I think we will need to run 2 different forks because we have different requirements for multi-tenant. So the benefit here would be sharing "OAuth providers" (eg, if we add Okta, we upstream it, if they add Twitter logins, we pull it)

[1] https://github.com/supabase/gotrue

• Appwrite

  581 41,016 10.0 TypeScript

  Build like a team of hundreds_

  

I agree with you. I feel a more complete solution is https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite which abides by the rules of being truly open source and self hosted.

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