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Supabase Auth

Auth built on GoTrue — comes free with Supabase.

Official site
Monthly cost
Free
Bundled with Supabase
Popularity
4/5
LLM knowledge
4/5
Difficulty
Easy
#open-source#low-cost

What Supabase Auth is good at

Strengths
  • +Free with Supabase
  • +Social logins
  • +Open source
Tradeoffs
  • Tied to Supabase
  • UI you build yourself

Coding-agent prompt

You're working with Supabase Auth. Auth built on GoTrue — comes free with Supabase.

Best practices:
- Lean on: free with supabase
- Lean on: social logins
- Lean on: open source

Things to watch for:
- Watch out for: tied to supabase
- Watch out for: ui you build yourself

General guidance:
- Canonical docs: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth — check here before inventing APIs.
- Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them.
- Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function.
- Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done.
- Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.

Beginner's guide to Supabase Auth

In one line: Free authentication bundled with Supabase's database.

If you're using Supabase, Auth is already there. You get email/password, magic links, and OAuth (sign in with Google etc.) without adding another service.

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