Request to Develop or Contribute to an Elixir Client Library for Supabase

[bymayanksingh]

Chore

Hello Supabase Community ✨

I am interested in contributing to the Supabase project by developing a client library for Elixir.

Before proceeding, I would like to check if there is already an existing Elixir client library for Supabase.

If such a library exists, I would be happy to contribute to its development by collaborating with the author and improve it.

If not, I would like to propose the creation of a new Elixir client library from scratch.

Describe the chore

This will help in expanding Supabase's ecosystem with support for Elixir, given few projects are built using Elixir itself within Supabase, I believe this will be a great addition.

This will also help in engaging with the Elixir community and attracting more developers to use Supabase.

We can povide Elixir developers with a robust and well-maintained client library to interact with Supabase services.

Once the proposal is accepted, I welcome any input, suggestions, or collaboration from fellow developers who are interested in working on this project

Thank you.

PS: let me know, if this is not the right repo to open this issue, I'll re raise the chore in another respective repo.

cc @awalias @kiwicopple

[encima]

Thanks for asking @bymayanksingh!

There is nothing officially supported (or within Supabase community) for Elixir as far as I know, though there is Supabase-Ex

I moved this to a discussion for contributing and will let the @supabase/devrel respond to the actual request.

[bymayanksingh]

Hi @zoedsoupe,

Thank you so much for the detailed response and for outlining the current state of supabase-ex. I'm excited to hear that there's already a comprehensive Elixir client library in place!

I would love to contribute to supabase-ex and help take it to the next level, ensuring it becomes a robust and well-maintained tool for the Supabase/Elixir community. I'm particularly interested in collaborating on the necessary refactoring and any new features that can enhance its functionality.

Thank you, @encima, for initiating this discussion and guiding it in the right direction. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to working together on this one @zoedsoupe @encima, to make supabase-ex an even greater success!

Let me where we can discuss the next steps @zoedsoupe @encima.

Best,
Mayank Singh

[zoedsoupe]

@bymayanksingh sorry for the delayed response, i got very busy on these last weeks, but i have some good news! I just launched new updated and refactored versions for the aforementioned hex packages, targeting the base SDK (aka supabase-ex) implementation.

to summarize, i simplified the client initialization and move the decision to manage OTP processes for the final user, as it should be! this should also prevent strange errors on starting and using clients but also clarify the documentation on how to start a client, as in the later version it had around 3 ways to start a client...

so basically, the current state for each library and my current roadmap is (very summarized):

supabase-ex

• easy manipulation, configuration and initialization of clients
  • supports all available configuration options as supabase-js
  • provides a pre defined "high-level" http client for supabase APIs (it should be refactored in some points)

it have a total of 2422 downloads on hex

postgrest-ex

• follows the standard of postgrest-js and postgrest-go with composable and "lazy" query and filter builders
• have good error mapping structure
• can not only execute queries and return JSON response but also can parse to an Ecto schema/struct
• good test coverage

it have a total of 242 downloads on hex
elixir community will very often prefer to connect to the postgresql instance directly with ecto

storage-ex

• handle all bucket operations
• handle all object operations
  • with addition of stream upload
  • with addition of stream download

it have a total of 802 downloads on hex
for some time the package was broken on hex 😕

gotrue-ex

• it have Plug applications support (plug middlewares)
• it have Phoenix.LiveView applications support (hooks)
• implements password reset email
• implements resend of confirmation email
• implements user update (also admin API)
• implements signup flow
• implements user creation (admin)
• implements signing in with
  • id token
  • oauth
  • otp
  • email and password
  • sso
• implements sign out (admin)
• implements email invitation and link generation (eg. any verification type) (admin)
• implements user management (deletion, list, get by id, update by id) (admin)

it have a total of 1738 downloads on hex

Roadmap

Said that, i would like to tackle these next features:

• Supabase.UI library for Phoenix.LiveView
• Supabase Realtime library and integration
  • as the realtime project is also in Elixir, i was discussing with @filipecabaco about the possibility to create adapters for PubSub and or process messaging to receive updates, besides the API integration
• Implements anonymous sign in on gotrue-ex
• Improvements and refactors on the PKCE flow on gotrue-ex
• integration with Ecto via custom adapter to be able to use Ecto.Query
  easily on postgrest-ex
  • also consider this issue/feature request

[zoedsoupe]

@bymayanksingh any updates? also i know the old work from @treebee and @J0 were maintainers. does you folks intend to continue giving support? i kinda already did a complete rewrite and i'm now fixing some bugs and focusing on documentation

[bymayanksingh]

Hey, really sorry, I won't be able to continue on this as of now, I am now committed to few other demanding projects & it's getting a little hard to manage all at once.

[zoedsoupe]

no problem on that! very relatable indeed