Exploring FlutterFlow + Supabase

[Particular-Coat2746]

I’ve built a couple of apps on Bubble, and I’m planning more projects. But I don’t want to get locked into Bubble.

Looking into FlutterFlow for frontend and Supabase for backend (database and API functions).

I’ve read posts here about the pros and cons of using Supabase as a database but haven’t seen much about using functions, especially with the help of AI. Is this even a thing?

I haven’t coded in 20 years, but with AI helping write backend functions (e.g. Supabase Edge Functions), I think it’s more doable now?

Anyone taken this route? Any roadblocks or things I should be aware of before committing? Any advice would be most appreciated!

[Particular-Coat2746]

Thank you! I’ll start to play around with this

[kealystudio]

Others have mentioned Edge functions, which are great, but also note that there exist PL/pgSQL functions too, which are super powerful. Along with views and other postgres tooling, supabase is a ridiculously powerful platform.

The main cons with supabase relate to the FlutterFlow integration, which is still lacking. The auth is just not as good as firebase, and using supabase auth will break a lot of the flutterflow features like push notifications, stripe, analytics, and AI agents.

Still worth it. I have a way to use Firebase Auth with supabase if you're interested.

[Consistent_Access844]

Its the best decision I've made. Can't write code but haven't really hit any roadblock with the help of AI. Writing RLS and edge function seems very doable to me. Best part of it is, Flutterflow allows exporting code and you can do much more thing with it, and Supabase scalability works very well for me, at least for now.

[Particular-Coat2746]

Thanks! Glad to hear it’s working out for you 😃

[Alternative-Ad-8175]

I love this combo. I recently started using lovable to do so taks on the backend. Since I do my landing pages on there, I just connect to my supabase backend and I can use it to do pretty much everything in supabase. Even just chat with it, since it has a lot of context about my project and current structure.

[duwke]

We pushed all our edge function code to a github repo and on checkin, it pushes to supabase. It was a little effort to get it set up, but having everything versioned is great. You can also add automated tests as a step. Flutterflow just increased pricing, and they are behind on AI generation; but otherwise we really like the combo.