--- title: Supabase Alpha October 2020 description: Eight months of building. author: paul_copplestone date: '2020-11-02' tags: - supabase categories: - product --- We're now 8 months into building Supabase. We're focused on performance, stability, and reliability but that hasn't prevented us from shipping some great features. ### Quick demo Watch a full demo: ### Supabase.js 1.0 In the lead-up to our Beta launch, we've [released](/blog/improved-dx) `supabase-js` version 1.0 and it comes with some major Developer Experience improvements. We received a lot of feedback from the community and we've incorporated it into our client libraries for our 1.0 release. Check out the [blog post](/blog/improved-dx) to learn more. ### More powerful SQL Editor Although it was only intended to be a temporary feature, the [SQL Editor](/features/sql-editor) has become one of the most useful features of Supabase. This month we decided to make give it some attention, adding Tabs and making it full-screen. This is the first of many updates, we've got some exciting things planned for the SQL Editor. ![This image shows a SQL Editor with tabs. Originally our SQL editor was very basic, but we're moving towards something very powerful.](/images/blog/sql-editor.png) ### Key commands for Power Users For the heavy table editor users, we've gone ahead and added a bunch of key commands and keyboard shortcuts so you can zip around and manipulate your tables faster than ever. ![This image shows some of the keyboard shortcuts we introduced on the table editor.](/images/blog/keyboard-shortcuts.png) ### Magic Links One of the most requested Auth features was the ability to send [magic links](/features/passwordless-login-via-magicklink) that your users can use to log in. You can use this with new or existing users, and alongside passwords or stand alone. ![This image shows a template where developers can edit the magic links email which is sent to their users on sign up.](/images/blog/magic-links.png) ### Kaizen - We have new and improved [docs](/docs/reference/javascript/installing). - We converted [realtime-js](https://github.com/supabase/realtime-js/) to TypeScript. - Dashboard Performance: we heavily optimised our dashboard routes. - With the help of the community, we [closed a lot of issues](https://github.com/orgs/supabase/projects/5) during Hacktoberfest. - We have started [benchmarking](https://github.com/supabase/benchmarks) all the open source tools we use. We'll publish the results this month. ### Community We had a crazy month during Hacktoberfest. In case you missed it, here are some of the highlights: - [@kiwicopple](https://twitter.com/kiwicopple) chatted to Jeff on the [Software Engineering Daily podcast](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/10/15/supabase-open-source-firebase-with-paul-copplestone/). - [Tezos](https://twitter.com/TezosBakingBad/status/1318212875035512835) started using our PostgREST libraries for their blockchain API: [https://pro.tzkt.io/](https://pro.tzkt.io/) - Supabase hosted a [Hacktoberfest meetup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xRLTjvEiE). - [@kiwicopple](https://twitter.com/kiwicopple) appeared on the [Open Sauced channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmiWXDx9-w) with [@bdougieYO](https://twitter.com/bdougieYO) - [@thorwebdev](https://twitter.com/thorwebdev) shows the [Engineers.sg](http://engineers.sg) group how to [build a realtime Slack clone](https://engineers.sg/video/building-a-slack-clone-with-authentication-and-realtime-data-syncing-using-supabase-io-singaporejs--4119) with Supabase If you want to keep up to date, make sure you [subscribe to our YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/supabase) or [follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/supabase). ### Coming next Our focus is still moving from Alpha to Beta and we'll be improving stability, reliability, and performance. Our Supabase.js 1.0 launch was part of that, and we've created a [Benchmarks](https://github.com/supabase/benchmarks/) repository where we'll be measuring the performance of all the open source tools we use. ### Get started - Start using Supabase today: [supabase.com/dashboard](/dashboard/) - Make sure to [star us on GitHub](https://github.com/supabase/supabase) - Follow us [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/supabase) - Become a [sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/supabase)