October 2020 Summaries

Supabase has released version 1.0 of supabase-js, which includes major Developer Experience improvements. These include new developer docs, returning errors instead of throwing them, creating gotrue-js for Netlify's GoTrue auth server, and other enhancements and fixes. The release also includes breaking changes such as function name changes and data constant updates. Supabase encourages users to upgrade to the latest version and provides detailed steps in the release notes.

The `supabase-js` library has been updated to version 2, focusing on quality-of-life improvements for developers. The new version includes Type support, new authentication methods, and features such as real-time multiplayer sneak peeks. Additionally, the documentation has been revamped with auto-generated reference docs from TypeScript definitions, placeholders for other languages, and sections for open-source tools like Postgres and GoTrue. This update also introduces a new pattern of handling errors by returning them instead of throwing exceptions, and creates a new library called `gotrue-js` to support Netlify's GoTrue auth server. The update includes native TypeScript support, better real-time scalability, and fixes for minor bugs. However, it does introduce breaking changes such as name changes in some functions and the removal of certain parameters. Users are advised to upgrade to the new version by installing the latest version of `supabase-js`, updating their code to use the new Auth interface, and following the documentation for a smooth transition.

In September 2020, Supabase released several updates and features including OAuth logins for Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, or Google; table cloning; Postgres extension enabling; SQL editor query saving; access to GitHub Discussions; and improved dashboard responsiveness. They also created an Isomorphic gotrue-js TypeScript library and migrated their postgrest-js library to TypeScript. Community contributions were highlighted, and plans for moving from Alpha to Beta were discussed.

In this update, Supabase has introduced OAuth logins for Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, and Google. Users can now clone tables, enable or disable Postgres extensions with ease, save favorite queries in the SQL editor, and participate in GitHub Discussions related to Supabase. The platform's dashboard has been optimized for better performance using Next.js automatic static optimization. Community contributions include realtime-py, postgrest-dart, and postgrest-csharp libraries. Supabase is committed to helping new contributors during Hacktoberfest and aims to move from Alpha to Beta by improving stability, reliability, and performance.