messaging

Getting a user for development

• Go to the Supabase dashboard, in the Authentication section.
• Click the Add user drop button, top right, select Create new user
• Enter user & password & select Auto Confirm User?
• Use that user to login

Local Development Setup

Prerequisites

Install Docker Desktop

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/

Install dependencies

Run the setup script

This will

• install & setup volta with nodejs 20.11.1
• install local npm modules

cd <this dir>
./scripts/setup-local.sh

Set up environment variables

1. Create a file named .env in the apps/web directory of the project.

2. Add the required environment variables to the .env file in the following format:

   NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=https://yoursupabaseinstance.com
   

3. For the Supabase related variables, see the output of supabase status

Run

Supabase

cd <this dir>
npm run supabase:start

NextJS App

cd <this dir>
npm run dev

DB Migration & types

Modifying the DB schema

The process to modify & apply DB schema goes as follow

• Modify local DB using Supabase Studio http://localhost:54323
• Create a migration from your local changes by running
  • npm run supabase:db:diff <migration-name>
• Verify the content of the generated migration file visually, in supabase/migrations/
• commit the migration file to repos

Applying all migrations

Migrations gets applied automatically when starting the local nextjs development server

Hard-Verify the migration

⚠️ this will wipe off your whole local database! Be sure to snapshot the local data before executing ⚠️

cd <workspace>
npm run supabase:db:reset