5-Day Free Course · Backend

Supabase Your Entire Backend in One Platform

PostgreSQL with row-level security, Auth with OAuth, file storage, Edge Functions for serverless logic, and Realtime subscriptions. Supabase is the fastest way to ship a production backend — this course covers all five pillars.

5 days self-paced
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No videos. On purpose.

This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on supabase you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.

Practitioner-tested, not vendor marketing

This course is built by engineers who ship supabase systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale.

Code you can run, not demos to watch

Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. Understanding comes through doing.

Links to the canonical sources

Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on supabase available.

Completes in 5 one-hour sessions

Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No live classes, no quizzes.

The 5 Days

Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.

01Day One

PostgreSQL and Row-Level Security

Supabase project setup, the Table Editor vs raw SQL, foreign keys, indexes, and row-level security (RLS) — the Supabase feature that enforces data access rules at the database level, eliminating entire classes of application security bugs.

PostgreSQLRLSforeign keysTable Editor
02Day Two

Auth: Email, OAuth, and Magic Links

Supabase Auth configuration, OAuth providers (Google, GitHub), magic link email flow, session management in React with @supabase/ssr, JWTs, and combining auth user IDs with RLS policies for secure multi-user apps.

Supabase AuthOAuthmagic linksSSR
03Day Three

Storage and File Management

Supabase Storage buckets, public vs private files, storage policies using RLS, presigned URLs for time-limited access, image transformations, and the patterns for handling user file uploads in production apps.

Storage bucketsstorage policiespresigned URLsimage transforms
04Day Four

Edge Functions and Serverless Logic

Deno-based Edge Functions, writing TypeScript serverless functions, calling external APIs, the CORS setup needed for browser-called functions, and Edge Function triggers for database webhooks.

Edge FunctionsDenoTypeScriptdatabase webhooks
05Day Five

Realtime and Production Deployment

Realtime subscriptions for live data sync, broadcast for ephemeral events, Presence for online/offline status, production database configuration, connection pooling with PgBouncer (built-in), and the Supabase dashboard production checklist.

RealtimebroadcastPresenceconnection pooling

The best external videos on this topic.

Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.

Read the source.

The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.

Three kinds of people read this.

Frontend Developers Who Need a Backend

Supabase gives you a production PostgreSQL database, auth, and file storage with zero backend code. This course shows you how to use all of it from a React or Next.js app.

Founders Building Fast

Supabase removes the backend infrastructure work from early-stage product development. This course covers the five features that replace what would otherwise take weeks to build.

Engineers Evaluating Firebase Alternatives

Supabase is the open-source Firebase alternative with PostgreSQL instead of a document database. This course gives you enough depth to evaluate it for your use case.

Want to Go Deeper In Person?

The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers backend development and Supabase in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).

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