---
id: with-react
title: 'Quickstart: React'
description: Learn how to use Supabase in your React App.
sidebar_label: React
---

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import QuickstartIntro from './_partials/quickstart_intro.md'
import ProjectSetup from './_partials/project_setup.mdx'

<QuickstartIntro />

![Supabase User Management example](/img/user-management-demo.png)

### GitHub

Should you get stuck while working through the guide, refer to [this repo](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/examples/user-management/react-user-management).

<ProjectSetup />

## Building the App

Let's start building the React app from scratch.

### Initialize a React app

We can use [Create React App](https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started/) to initialize
an app called `supabase-react`:

```bash
npx create-react-app supabase-react
cd supabase-react
```

Then let's install the only additional dependency: [supabase-js](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-js).

```bash
npm install @supabase/supabase-js
```

And finally we want to save the environment variables in a `.env`.
All we need are the API URL and the `anon` key that you copied [earlier](#get-the-api-keys).

```bash title=".env"
REACT_APP_SUPABASE_URL=YOUR_SUPABASE_URL
REACT_APP_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY
```

Now that we have the API credentials in place, let's create a helper file to initialize the Supabase client. These variables will be exposed
on the browser, and that's completely fine since we have [Row Level Security](/docs/guides/auth#row-level-security) enabled on our Database.

```js title="src/supabaseClient.js"
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'

const supabaseUrl = process.env.REACT_APP_SUPABASE_URL
const supabaseAnonKey = process.env.REACT_APP_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY

export const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey)
```

And one optional step is to update the CSS file `src/index.css` to make the app look nice.
You can find the full contents of this file [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supabase/supabase/master/examples/user-management/react-user-management/src/index.css).

### Set up a Login component

Let's set up a React component to manage logins and sign ups. We'll use Magic Links, so users can sign in with their email without using passwords.

```jsx title="/src/Auth.js"
import { useState } from 'react'
import { supabase } from './supabaseClient'

export default function Auth() {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false)
  const [email, setEmail] = useState('')

  const handleLogin = async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault()

    try {
      setLoading(true)
      const { error } = await supabase.auth.signInWithOtp({ email })
      if (error) throw error
      alert('Check your email for the login link!')
    } catch (error) {
      alert(error.error_description || error.message)
    } finally {
      setLoading(false)
    }
  }

  return (
    <div className="row flex-center flex">
      <div className="col-6 form-widget" aria-live="polite">
        <h1 className="header">Supabase + React</h1>
        <p className="description">
          Sign in via magic link with your email below
        </p>
        {loading ? (
          'Sending magic link...'
        ) : (
          <form onSubmit={handleLogin}>
            <label htmlFor="email">Email</label>
            <input
              id="email"
              className="inputField"
              type="email"
              placeholder="Your email"
              value={email}
              onChange={(e) => setEmail(e.target.value)}
            />
            <button className="button block" aria-live="polite">
              Send magic link
            </button>
          </form>
        )}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}
```

### Account page

After a user is signed in we can allow them to edit their profile details and manage their account.

Let's create a new component for that called `Account.js`.

```jsx title="src/Account.js"
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { supabase } from './supabaseClient'

const Account = ({ session }) => {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true)
  const [username, setUsername] = useState(null)
  const [website, setWebsite] = useState(null)
  const [avatar_url, setAvatarUrl] = useState(null)

  useEffect(() => {
    getProfile()
  }, [session])

  const getProfile = async () => {
    try {
      setLoading(true)
      const { user } = session

      let { data, error, status } = await supabase
        .from('profiles')
        .select(`username, website, avatar_url`)
        .eq('id', user.id)
        .single()

      if (error && status !== 406) {
        throw error
      }

      if (data) {
        setUsername(data.username)
        setWebsite(data.website)
        setAvatarUrl(data.avatar_url)
      }
    } catch (error) {
      alert(error.message)
    } finally {
      setLoading(false)
    }
  }

  const updateProfile = async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault()

    try {
      setLoading(true)
      const { user } = session

      const updates = {
        id: user.id,
        username,
        website,
        avatar_url,
        updated_at: new Date(),
      }

      let { error } = await supabase.from('profiles').upsert(updates)

      if (error) {
        throw error
      }
    } catch (error) {
      alert(error.message)
    } finally {
      setLoading(false)
    }
  }

  return (
    <div aria-live="polite">
      {loading ? (
        'Saving ...'
      ) : (
        <form onSubmit={updateProfile} className="form-widget">
          <div>Email: {session.user.email}</div>
          <div>
            <label htmlFor="username">Name</label>
            <input
              id="username"
              type="text"
              value={username || ''}
              onChange={(e) => setUsername(e.target.value)}
            />
          </div>
          <div>
            <label htmlFor="website">Website</label>
            <input
              id="website"
              type="url"
              value={website || ''}
              onChange={(e) => setWebsite(e.target.value)}
            />
          </div>
          <div>
            <button className="button primary block" disabled={loading}>
              Update profile
            </button>
          </div>
        </form>
      )}
      <button
        type="button"
        className="button block"
        onClick={() => supabase.auth.signOut()}
      >
        Sign Out
      </button>
    </div>
  )
}

export default Account
```

### Launch!

Now that we have all the components in place, let's update `App.js`:

```jsx title="src/App.js"
import './index.css'
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { supabase } from './supabaseClient'
import Auth from './Auth'
import Account from './Account'

export default function App() {
  const [session, setSession] = useState(null)

  useEffect(() => {
    supabase.auth.getSession().then(({ data: { session } }) => {
      setSession(session)
    })

    supabase.auth.onAuthStateChange((_event, session) => {
      setSession(session)
    })
  }, [])

  return (
    <div className="container" style={{ padding: '50px 0 100px 0' }}>
      {!session ? (
        <Auth />
      ) : (
        <Account key={session.user.id} session={session} />
      )}
    </div>
  )
}
```

Once that's done, run this in a terminal window:

```bash
npm start
```

And then open the browser to [localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) and you should see the completed app.

![Supabase React](/img/supabase-react-demo.png)

## Bonus: Profile photos

Every Supabase project is configured with [Storage](/docs/guides/storage) for managing large files like photos and videos.

### Create an upload widget

Let's create an avatar for the user so that they can upload a profile photo. We can start by creating a new component:

```jsx title="src/Avatar.js"
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import { supabase } from './supabaseClient'

export default function Avatar({ url, size, onUpload }) {
  const [avatarUrl, setAvatarUrl] = useState(null)
  const [uploading, setUploading] = useState(false)

  useEffect(() => {
    if (url) downloadImage(url)
  }, [url])

  const downloadImage = async (path) => {
    try {
      const { data, error } = await supabase.storage
        .from('avatars')
        .download(path)
      if (error) {
        throw error
      }
      const url = URL.createObjectURL(data)
      setAvatarUrl(url)
    } catch (error) {
      console.log('Error downloading image: ', error.message)
    }
  }

  const uploadAvatar = async (event) => {
    try {
      setUploading(true)

      if (!event.target.files || event.target.files.length === 0) {
        throw new Error('You must select an image to upload.')
      }

      const file = event.target.files[0]
      const fileExt = file.name.split('.').pop()
      const fileName = `${Math.random()}.${fileExt}`
      const filePath = `${fileName}`

      let { error: uploadError } = await supabase.storage
        .from('avatars')
        .upload(filePath, file)

      if (uploadError) {
        throw uploadError
      }

      onUpload(filePath)
    } catch (error) {
      alert(error.message)
    } finally {
      setUploading(false)
    }
  }

  return (
    <div style={{ width: size }} aria-live="polite">
      <img
        src={avatarUrl ? avatarUrl : `https://place-hold.it/${size}x${size}`}
        alt={avatarUrl ? 'Avatar' : 'No image'}
        className="avatar image"
        style={{ height: size, width: size }}
      />
      {uploading ? (
        'Uploading...'
      ) : (
        <>
          <label className="button primary block" htmlFor="single">
            Upload an avatar
          </label>
          <div className="visually-hidden">
            <input
              type="file"
              id="single"
              accept="image/*"
              onChange={uploadAvatar}
              disabled={uploading}
            />
          </div>
        </>
      )}
    </div>
  )
}
```

### Add the new widget

And then we can add the widget to the Account page:

```jsx title="src/Account.js"
// Import the new component
import Avatar from './Avatar'

// ...

return (
  <div className="form-widget">
    {/* Add to the body */}
    <Avatar
      url={avatar_url}
      size={150}
      onUpload={(url) => {
        setAvatarUrl(url)
        updateProfile({ username, website, avatar_url: url })
      }}
    />
    {/* ... */}
  </div>
)
```

## Next steps

At this stage you have a fully functional application!

- Got a question? [Ask here](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions).
- Sign in: [app.supabase.com](https://app.supabase.com)