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Katerina Skroumpelou
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New guide at `/guides/api/handling-errors-in-supabase-js` that leads
with `error.hint` as the most useful field on a Postgres error. When the
database knows the fix (a `GRANT` statement to run for a `42501`, a
column name you probably meant), it puts the literal SQL in `hint`.
Logging only `error.message` hides it.
The guide covers the `PostgrestError` shape (fields ordered by
usefulness: hint first, message last), branching on `error.code`, and
parallel patterns for Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, and Realtime.
Linked from the API > Guides sidebar next to the existing PostgREST
error codes reference.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Added a comprehensive guide on handling errors in supabase-js,
explaining the {data, error} pattern and recommending logging full error
objects.
* Provides a recommended error-handling pattern, guidance to branch on
error codes, and example error fields.
* Adds component-specific advice for Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, and
Realtime, plus a “Related” links section.
* Added a navigation entry so the guide appears in the API guides
submenu.
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