Use Supabase with Vue

Learn how to create a Supabase project, add some sample data to your database, and query the data from a Vue app.

Create a Supabase project

Go to database.new and create a new Supabase project.

When your project is up and running, go to the Table Editor, create a new table and insert some data.

Alternatively, you can run the following snippet in your project's SQL Editor. This will create a instruments table with some sample data.

SQL_EDITOR

-- Create the table
create table instruments (
  id bigint primary key generated always as identity,
  name text not null
);
-- Insert some sample data into the table
insert into instruments (name)
values
  ('violin'),
  ('viola'),
  ('cello');

alter table instruments enable row level security;

Make the data in your table publicly readable by adding an RLS policy:

SQL_EDITOR

create policy "public can read instruments"
on public.instruments
for select to anon
using (true);

Create a Vue app

Create a Vue app using the npm init command.

Terminal

npm init vue@latest my-app

Install the Supabase client library

The fastest way to get started is to use the supabase-js client library which provides a convenient interface for working with Supabase from a Vue app.

Navigate to the Vue app and install supabase-js.

Terminal

cd my-app && npm install @supabase/supabase-js

Create the Supabase client

Create a /src/lib directory in your Vue app, create a file called supabaseClient.js and add the following code to initialize the Supabase client with your project URL and public API (anon) key:

Project URL

Anon key

src/lib/supabaseClient.js

  import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'

  export const supabase = createClient('https://<project>.supabase.co', '<your-anon-key>')

Query data from the app

Replace the existing content in your App.vue file with the following code.

src/App.vue

  <script setup>
  import { ref, onMounted } from 'vue'
  import { supabase } from './lib/supabaseClient'

  const instruments = ref([])

  async function getInstruments() {
    const { data } = await supabase.from('instruments').select()
    instruments.value = data
  }

  onMounted(() => {
    getInstruments()
  })
  </script>

  <template>
    <ul>
      <li v-for="instrument in instruments" :key="instrument.id">{{ instrument.name }}</li>
    </ul>
  </template>

Start the app

Start the app and go to http://localhost:5173 in a browser and you should see the list of instruments.

Terminal

npm run dev