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Status

| Features | v1 | v2 | Status | | ---------------- | --- | --- | ------ | | Postgres Changes | ✔ | ✔ | GA | | Broadcast | | ✔ | GA | | Presence | | ✔ | GA |

This repository focuses on version 2 but you can still access the previous version's code and Docker image. For the latest Docker images go to https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/realtime.

The codebase is under heavy development and the documentation is constantly evolving. Give it a try and let us know what you think by creating an issue. Watch releases of this repo to get notified of updates. And give us a star if you like it!

Overview

What is this?

This is a server built with Elixir using the Phoenix Framework that enables the following functionality:

Broadcast: Send ephemeral messages from client to clients with low latency.
Presence: Track and synchronize shared state between clients.
Postgres Changes: Listen to Postgres database changes and send them to authorized clients.

For a more detailed overview head over to Realtime guides.

Does this server guarantee message delivery?

The server does not guarantee that every message will be delivered to your clients so keep that in mind as you're using Realtime.

Quick start

You can check out the Supabase UI Library Realtime components and the multiplayer.dev demo app source code here

Client libraries

Server Setup

To get started, spin up your Postgres database and Realtime server containers defined in docker-compose.yml. As an example, you may run docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up.

Note Supabase runs Realtime in production with a separate database that keeps track of all tenants. However, a schema, _realtime, is created when spinning up containers via docker-compose.yml to simplify local development.

A tenant has already been added on your behalf. You can confirm this by checking the _realtime.tenants and _realtime.extensions tables inside the database.

You can add your own by making a POST request to the server. You must change both name and external_id while you may update other values as you see fit:

  curl -X POST \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiIiLCJpYXQiOjE2NzEyMzc4NzMsImV4cCI6MTcwMjc3Mzk5MywiYXVkIjoiIiwic3ViIjoiIn0._ARixa2KFUVsKBf3UGR90qKLCpGjxhKcXY4akVbmeNQ' \
  -d $'{
    "tenant" : {
      "name": "realtime-dev",
      "external_id": "realtime-dev",
      "jwt_secret": "a1d99c8b-91b6-47b2-8f3c-aa7d9a9ad20f",
      "extensions": [
        {
          "type": "postgres_cdc_rls",
          "settings": {
            "db_name": "postgres",
            "db_host": "host.docker.internal",
            "db_user": "postgres",
            "db_password": "postgres",
            "db_port": "5432",
            "region": "us-west-1",
            "poll_interval_ms": 100,
            "poll_max_record_bytes": 1048576,
            "ssl_enforced": false
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }' \
  http://localhost:4000/api/tenants

Note The Authorization token is signed with the secret set by API_JWT_SECRET in docker-compose.yml.

If you want to listen to Postgres changes, you can create a table and then add the table to the supabase_realtime publication:

create table test (
  id serial primary key
);

alter publication supabase_realtime add table test;

You can start playing around with Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes features either with the client libs (e.g. @supabase/realtime-js), or use the built in Realtime Inspector on localhost, http://localhost:4000/inspector/new (make sure the port is correct for your development environment).

The WebSocket URL must contain the subdomain, external_id of the tenant on the _realtime.tenants table, and the token must be signed with the jwt_secret that was inserted along with the tenant.

If you're using the default tenant, the URL is ws://realtime-dev.localhost:4000/socket (make sure the port is correct for your development environment), and you can use eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE3MDMwMjgwODcsInJvbGUiOiJwb3N0Z3JlcyJ9.tz_XJ89gd6bN8MBpCl7afvPrZiBH6RB65iA1FadPT3Y for the token. The token must have exp and role (database role) keys.

Environment Variables

| Variable | Type | Description | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | PORT | number | Port which you can connect your client/listeners | | DB_HOST | string | Database host URL | | DB_PORT | number | Database port | | DB_USER | string | Database user | | DB_PASSWORD | string | Database password | | DB_NAME | string | Postgres database name | | DB_ENC_KEY | string | Key used to encrypt sensitive fields in _realtime.tenants and _realtime.extensions tables. Recommended: 16 characters.

Realtime

Install / Use

README