## Summary Fixes GROWTH-625. Preserves first-touch attribution across app boundaries by persisting external referrer context at the edge and consuming it on Studio's initial pageview. When users come from an external source to www/docs and then navigate to Studio, Studio often only sees the internal `supabase.com` hop. This change preserves the original external context so first-touch attribution is retained. ## What changed - **Shared first-referrer cookie utilities** (`packages/common/first-referrer-cookie.ts`): - `isExternalReferrer`, `buildFirstReferrerData`, `serializeFirstReferrerCookie`, `parseFirstReferrerCookie` - `hasPaidSignals` — detects click IDs (gclid, fbclid, etc.) and paid utm_medium values - `shouldRefreshCookie` — centralizes stamp-or-skip decision for all apps - `stampFirstReferrerCookie` — shared middleware helper used by all apps (extracted from duplicated inline logic) - **Edge middleware on all apps** — stamps cookie for external visitors, refreshes on paid signals: - `apps/www/middleware.ts` (simplified to use shared helper) - `apps/docs/middleware.ts` (simplified to use shared helper) - `apps/studio/proxy.ts` (integrated into existing proxy file) - **Docs middleware matcher** — broadened from `/reference/:path*` to all non-static paths so the first-referrer cookie is stamped on all docs pages, not just reference paths - **Telemetry** — Studio consumes cookie on initial pageview (`packages/common/telemetry.tsx`). `handlePageTelemetry` refactored from 7 positional params to an options object for readability. - **Tests** — 22 unit tests covering all utilities and edge cases (including direct-navigation scenario) ## Behavior - Writes `_sb_first_referrer` cookie when: - cookie is not already set and request has an external referrer, OR - cookie exists but incoming URL has paid traffic signals (click IDs or paid utm_medium) - Cookie: 365-day TTL, `domain=supabase.com`, `sameSite=lax`, `secure=true` in production - On first Studio pageview, if current referrer is internal and cookie has external context: - use persisted external referrer - apply persisted UTM/click-id/landing-url attribution props - Measurement properties: `first_referrer_cookie_present`, `first_referrer_cookie_consumed` ## Manual testing 1. Visit `supabase.com/pricing?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc` from an external referrer (or use DevTools to set a `Referer` header) 2. Check `_sb_first_referrer` cookie is set in Application > Cookies 3. Navigate to Studio (`supabase.com/dashboard`) 4. In PostHog (or browser network tab), verify the first `$pageview` event has: - `first_referrer_cookie_present: true` - `first_referrer_cookie_consumed: true` - `$utm_source: "google"`, `$utm_medium: "cpc"` - `$referrer` points to the external source, not `supabase.com` 5. Verify subsequent route changes do NOT include `first_referrer_cookie_*` properties ## Review feedback addressed - Added `secure: true` flag on production cookies (Pam's first comment) - Fixed inaccurate JSDoc on `utms` field — keys retain `utm_` prefix (Pam's fourth comment) - Added test coverage for edge cases: malformed URLs, multi-cookie headers, http:// referrers (Pam's sixth comment) - Docs matcher broadening: fast-path exit on cookie-exists check keeps overhead minimal, exclusion list is correct - Extracted shared middleware helper to eliminate duplication across 3 apps - Refactored `handlePageTelemetry` from positional params to options object - Removed redundant null check in `hasPaidSignals` - Added direct-navigation test case - Deleted dead `apps/learn/middleware.ts` - Fixed studio build: integrated cookie stamping into existing `proxy.ts` (Next.js 16 rejects both middleware.ts and proxy.ts) --------- Co-authored-by: pamelachia <26612111+pamelachia@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Pamela Chia <pamelachiamayyee@gmail.com>
Supabase Studio
A dashboard for managing your self-hosted Supabase project, and used on our hosted platform. Built with:
What's included
Studio is designed to work with existing deployments - either the local hosted, docker setup, or our CLI. It is not intended for managing the deployment and administration of projects - that's out of scope.
As such, the features exposed on Studio for existing deployments are limited to those which manage your database:
- Table & SQL editors
- Saved queries are unavailable
- Database management
- Policies, roles, extensions, replication
- API documentation
Managing Project Settings
Project settings are managed outside of the Dashboard. If you use docker compose, you should manage the settings in your docker-compose file. If you're deploying Supabase to your own cloud, you should store your secrets and env vars in a vault or secrets manager.
How to contribute?
- Branch from
masterand name your branches with the following structure{type}/{branch_name}- Type:
chore | fix | feature - The branch name is arbitrary — just make sure it summarizes the work.
- Type:
- When you send a PR to
master, it will automatically tag members of the frontend team for review. - Review the contributing checklists to help test your feature before sending a PR.
- The Dashboard is under active development. You should run
git pullfrequently to make sure you're up to date.
Developer Quickstart
Note
Supabase internal use: To develop on Studio locally with the backend services, see the instructions in the internal
infrastructurerepo.
# You'll need to be on Node v20
# in /studio
## For external contributors
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm run dev # start dev server
## For internal contributors
## First clone the private supabase/platform repo and follow instructions for setting up mise
mise studio # Run from supabase/platform alongside `mise infra`
## For all
pnpm run test # run tests
pnpm run test -- --watch # run tests in watch mode
Running within a self-hosted environment
Follow the self-hosting guide to get started.
cd ..
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f ./dev/docker-compose.dev.yml up
Once you've got that set up, update .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=
Then run the following commands to install dependencies and start the dashboard.
npm install
npm run dev
If you would like to configure different defaults for "Default Organization" and "Default Project", you will need to update the .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.
DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_NAME=
DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME=