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How to use Supabase with Handlebars.js for templating?

Discover the simple steps to merge Supabase and Handlebars.js for smooth templating. Dive into this guide to understand setting up, fetching data easily, and rendering dynamic content like a pro. Find out how to make your content dynamic and engaging without any hassle. Explore effortless techniques today!

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Overview

Using Supabase alongside Handlebars.js makes it a breeze to build dynamic, data-rich web applications. With Supabase, a backend-as-a-service platform, you get access to a PostgreSQL database, authentication, and storage services, perfect for scalable apps. Handlebars.js, a straightforward templating engine, allows you to cleanly separate HTML from JavaScript, efficiently rendering templates with the data you provide. Dive into this guide to learn how to set up Supabase, pull data through its APIs, and seamlessly integrate Handlebars.js for dynamic web page rendering, resulting in a clean and easy-to-maintain architecture for your app.

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How to use Supabase with Handlebars.js for templating?

Step 1: Set Up Supabase Project

  1. First things first, head over to Supabase and sign up. Once you're in, log in.
  2. Click on 'New project' to kick off a new project.
  3. Fill in your project details like the organization, name, and database password, then hit create.
  4. After your project is up and running, go to the 'API Settings' section to grab your project URL and anon key.

Step 2: Initialize Supabase Client

  1. Time to install the Supabase client in your project using npm:
npm install @supabase/supabase-js
  1. Create a config file (let's call it supabase.js) to set up the Supabase client:
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';

const supabaseUrl = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_URL';
const supabaseKey = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY';
export const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseKey);

Make sure to replace YOUR_SUPABASE_URL and YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY with the actual values from your Supabase project settings.

Step 3: Set Up Handlebars.js

  1. Next, install Handlebars.js in your project using npm:
npm install handlebars
  1. Create your Handlebars template files (e.g., template.hbs). Here's a simple example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Supabase with Handlebars.js</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>{{title}}</h1>
    <ul>
        {{#each data}}
            <li>{{this.name}} - {{this.email}}</li>
        {{/each}}
    </ul>
</body>
</html>

Step 4: Fetch Data from Supabase

Create a file (e.g., fetchData.js) to fetch data from Supabase:

import { supabase } from './supabase';

export async function fetchData() {
    const { data, error } = await supabase
        .from('your_table_name')  // Replace with your specific table name
        .select('*');

    if (error) {
        throw new Error(error.message);
    }

    return data;
}

Step 5: Render Handlebars Template with Data

  1. Create a script to compile and render the Handlebars template with the fetched data (e.g., renderTemplate.js):
import Handlebars from 'handlebars';
import fs from 'fs';
import { fetchData } from './fetchData';

async function renderTemplate() {
    const data = await fetchData();
    
    const source = fs.readFileSync('template.hbs', 'utf8');
    const template = Handlebars.compile(source);

    const context = {
        title: 'User Data from Supabase',
        data: data,
    };

    const html = template(context);
    fs.writeFileSync('output.html', html, 'utf8');
}

renderTemplate().then(() => {
    console.log('Template rendered and saved as output.html');
}).catch(error => {
    console.error('Error rendering template:', error);
});
  1. Run the script:
node renderTemplate.js

Check the generated output.html file to see the rendered content with data fetched from Supabase.

Step 6: Serve the Rendered HTML

  1. To view the generated HTML file in a browser, you can use a simple HTTP server. Install the serve package (or any other static server):
npm install serve -g
  1. Serve the output directory:
serve .
  1. Open the provided URL in your browser to see the content of output.html.

This guide walks you through using Supabase with Handlebars.js for templating, fetching data from a database, and rendering it into HTML templates.

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