Realtime chat example using Supabase

This is a full-stack Slack clone example using:

Frontend:
- Next.js.
- Supabase.js for user management and realtime data syncing.
Backend:
- app.supabase.io/: hosted Postgres database with restful API for usage with Supabase.js.

Demo

Live demo: https://supabase-nextjs-slack-clone.vercel.app/
Video tutorial: https://www.loom.com/share/31eec9b656e44b8d87c88bde8a465676

Deploy your own

1. Create new project

2. Run "Slack Clone" Quickstart

Once your database has started, run the "Slack Clone" quickstart.

3. Get the URL and Key

Go to the Project Settings (the cog icon), open the API tab, and find your API URL and anon key, you'll need these in the next step.

The anon key is your client-side API key. It allows "anonymous access" to your database, until the user has logged in. Once they have logged in, the keys will switch to the user's own login token. This enables row level security for your data. Read more about this below.

NOTE: The service_role key has full access to your data, bypassing any security policies. These keys have to be kept secret and are meant to be used in server environments and never on a client or browser.

4. Deploy the Next.js client

You will be asked for a NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_KEY. Use the API URL and anon key from step 3.

How to use

Using `create-next-app`

Execute create-next-app with npm or Yarn to bootstrap the example locally:

npx create-next-app --example with-supabase-auth-realtime-db realtime-chat-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-supabase-auth-realtime-db realtime-chat-app

Download manually

Download the example:

curl https://codeload.github.com/vercel/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-supabase-auth-realtime-db
cd with-supabase-auth-realtime-db

Required configuration

Copy the .env.local.example file into a file named .env.local in the root directory of the example:

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Set your Supabase details from from step 3 above:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=<replace-with-your-API-url>
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_KEY=<replace-with-your-anon-key>

Run the development server

Now install the dependencies and start the development server.

npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev

Visit http://localhost:3000 and start chatting! Open a channel across two browser tabs to see everything getting updated in realtime 🥳

Supabase details

Postgres Row level security

This project uses very high-level Authorization using Postgres' Role Level Security. When you start a Postgres database on Supabase, we populate it with an auth schema, and some helper functions. When a user logs in, they are issued a JWT with the role authenticated and thier UUID. We can use these details to provide fine-grained control over what each user can and cannot do.

This is a trimmed-down schema, with the policies:

-- USER PROFILES
CREATE TYPE public.user_status AS ENUM ('ONLINE', 'OFFLINE');
CREATE TABLE public.users (
  id uuid NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, -- UUID from auth.users (Supabase)
  username text,
  status user_status DEFAULT 'OFFLINE'::public.user_status
);
ALTER TABLE public.users ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY;
CREATE POLICY "Allow logged-in read access" on public.users FOR SELECT USING ( auth.role() = 'authenticated' );
CREATE POLICY "Allow individual insert access" on public.users FOR INSERT WITH CHECK ( auth.uid() = id );
CREATE POLICY "Allow individual update access" on public.users FOR UPDATE USING ( auth.uid() = id );

-- CHANNELS
CREATE TABLE public.channels (
  id bigint GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
  inserted_at timestamp with time zone DEFAULT timezone('utc'::text, now()) NOT NULL,
  slug text NOT NULL UNIQUE
);
ALTER TABLE public.channels ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY;
CREATE POLICY "Allow logged-in full access" on public.channels FOR ALL USING ( auth.role() = 'authenticated' );

-- MESSAGES
CREATE TABLE public.messages (
  id bigint GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
  inserted_at timestamp with time zone DEFAULT timezone('utc'::text, now()) NOT NULL,
  message text,
  user_id uuid REFERENCES public.users NOT NULL,
  channel_id bigint REFERENCES public.channels NOT NULL
);
ALTER TABLE public.messages ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY;
CREATE POLICY "Allow logged-in read access" on public.messages USING ( auth.role() = 'authenticated' );
CREATE POLICY "Allow individual insert access" on public.messages FOR INSERT WITH CHECK ( auth.uid() = user_id );
CREATE POLICY "Allow individual update access" on public.messages FOR UPDATE USING ( auth.uid() = user_id );

Authors

Supabase

Supabase is open source, we'd love for you to follow along and get involved at https://github.com/supabase/supabase

nprbst/supabase-nextjs-slack-clone