Charis
fc164b5d07
Migrates client SDK References to App Router. (Management and CLI API references aren't migrated yet, nor are self-hosting config references.) Some notes: Big changes to the way crawler pages are built and individual section URLs (e.g., javascript/select) are served. All of these used to be SSG-generated pages, but the number of heavy pages was just too much to handle -- slow as molasses and my laptop sounded like it was taking off, and CI sometimes refuses to build it all at all. Tried various tricks with caching and pre-generating data but no dice. So I changed to only building one copy of each SDK+version page, then serving the sub-URLs through a response rewrite. That's for the actual user-visible pages. For the bot pages, each sub-URL needs to be its own page, but prebuilding it doesn't work, and rendering on demand from React components is too slow (looking for super-fast response here for SEO). Instead I changed to using an API route that serves very minimal, hand-crafted HTML. It looks ugly, but it's purely for the search bots. You can test what bots see by running curl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" <URL_OF_PAGE> Also added some smoke tests to run against prod for the crawler routes, since we don't keep an eye on those regularly, and Vercel config changes could surprise-break them. Tested the meta images on Open Graph and all seems to work fine. With this approach, full production builds are really fast: ~5 minutes Starts using the new type spec handling, which is better at finding params automatically, so I could remove some of the manually written ones from the spec files.
Reference Docs
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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.