Filipe Cabaço
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## I have read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) file. YES ## What kind of change does this PR introduce? Adds details about error handling in the protocol and what users can expect when handling them in client libs <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Expanded Realtime protocol "Error handling": describes four error delivery paths, client lifecycle and recovery behaviors, and which errors close or preserve channels. * Clarifies join rejection parsing and retry/backoff guidance for join error codes, plus special-case join reasons. * Details channel-level system errors, Postgres subscription degraded-state and ID-consistency rules, broadcast/presence error shapes, in-band access_token refresh, and reconnection sequencing. <!-- review_stack_entry_start --> [](https://app.coderabbit.ai/change-stack/supabase/supabase/pull/46292?utm_source=github_walkthrough&utm_medium=github&utm_campaign=change_stack) <!-- review_stack_entry_end --> <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
Reference Docs
Supabase Reference Docs
Maintainers
If you are a maintainer of any tools in the Supabase ecosystem, you can use this site to provide documentation for the tools & libraries that you maintain.
Versioning
All tools have versioned docs, which are kept in separate folders. For example, the CLI has the following folders and files:
cli: the "next" release.cli_spec: contains the DocSpec for the "next" release (see below).cli_versioned_docs: a version of the documentation for every release (including the most current version).cli_versioned_sidebars: a version of the sidebar for every release (including the most current version).
When you release a new version of a tool, you should also release a new version of the docs. You can do this via the command line. For example, if you just released the CLI version 1.0.1:
npm run cli:version 1.0.1
DocSpec
We use documentation specifications which can be used to generate human-readable docs.
- OpenAPI: for documenting API endpoints.
- SDKSpec (custom to Supabase): for SDKs and client libraries.
- ConfigSpec (custom to Supabase): for configuration options.
- CLISpec (custom to Supabase): for CLI commands and usage.
The benefit of using custom specifications is that we can generate many other types from a strict schema (eg, HTML and manpages). It also means that we can switch to any documentation system we want. On this site we use Next.js, but on Supabase's official website, we use a custom React site and expose only a subset of the available API for each tool.
Contributing
To contribute to docs, see the developers' guide and contributing guide.