Launched this week
BaseBuddy
Turn your Supabase database into a WordPress-like editor
101 followers
Turn your Supabase database into a WordPress-like editor
101 followers
BaseBuddy is an open-source Supabase CMS and self-hosted editor for existing Supabase and Postgres databases.
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@ravi_teja_knts Very cool Ravi, congrats on the launch. How are you handling security and permissions on existing postgres?
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@zolani_matebese It's an open source, self host product. It connects via the Postgres connection string you provide in your env vars, so it operates with whatever role/permissions that user has. It doesn't touch RLS or modify your schema, it just reads and writes through the mapping you configure. No extra permissions needed beyond what your app user already has.
Turning a Supabase database into a WordPress-style editor is smart for non-technical stakeholders. Content teams in most dev-tool companies are blocked on engineers for the simplest data edits. We've been building in the customer success for developer tool companies space, and BaseBuddy touches on something we think about a lot. How does it handle row-level security rules that already exist in Supabase?
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@shivam_jaiswal21 It connects via the Postgres connection string and operates with whatever role/permissions that user has. So just create a user that has full access to the needed tables, that's it.
Very cool project. Curious how you handle schema changes after non-technical users start editing data directly, since that's usually where these tools break down. Does BaseBuddy lock column editing or surface migrations somehow?
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@fberrez1 yes, dealing with database changes is a struggle. So Basebuddy handles it own permission layer. We have role level and user level permissions. So all users do not have the ability to publish content by default, authors only has the ability to check their own posts by default. However, everything is customisable. You can customise both the editor UI and permissions that fit your specific need.
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Any plans for plugins like media management and rich text fields, or is it staying as a clean database editor?
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@othman_katim The app already has media management page and rich text editing. I will continue to add more refined settings moving forward so you can just toggle whether any specific section can rich text editor or normal text editor. Currently not thinking of plugins.
However, this is open source app, so you can just clone and add whatever features you need for your personal need.
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Congrats on launch day! Tools that extend what developers already have rather than replacing it are always appreciated. Good instincts on the positioning.
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@roman_burdyga Thanks for the support
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Congratulations! By ensuring your existing schema remains untouched, developers will feel more confident and trust in this approach
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@marianna_tymchuk Thanks for the support, yeah I hate when the things I already configured has to change because of a random tool.