FastAPI + Superbase connection

What is Supabase?

Supabase is a backend platform that provides services like a PostgreSQL database, authentication, file storage, and APIs. We use Supabase with FastAPI to store and manage application data.

Why Connect Fastapi With Supabase?

FastAPI is useful for creating APIs and handling application logic.

Supabase is useful for storing data and providing database, authentication, and storage services.

What is the Connection Process?

1. Create a Supabase project

create a project in Supabase. Supabase automatically provides a PostgreSQL database for the project.

2. Get Supabase URL

Supabase provides a project URL. FastAPI uses this URL to communicate with Supabase.

3. Get Supabase API Key

Supabase also provides an API key. The key is used to authenticate requests from our FastAPI application.

4. Install Supabase library in Fastapi

  pip install supabase

5. Store credentials safely

 We should not directly write the Supabase URL and key inside our Python code. We can store them in a .env file.

   SUPABASE_URL=your_supabase_url

   SUPABASE_KEY=your_supabase_key

6. Connect FastAPI to Supabase

Connecting our FastAPI backend to a Supabase database so that FastAPI can store, retrieve, update, and delete application data using Supabase.

Sample Code For Superbase Connection:

     import os

     from fastapi import FastAPI

    from supabase import create_client

    from dotenv import load_dotenv

    load_dotenv()

    app = FastAPI()

    supabase_url = os.getenv("SUPABASE_URL")

   supabase_key = os.getenv("SUPABASE_KEY")

   supabase = create_client(

   supabase_url,

   supabase_key

)