Introduction to supabase — Recap of the MD Tech Meetup at UniNow — Introduction Supabase claims to be a Firebase alternative and offers a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, and Storage. While Firebase currently offers additional features such as Firebase ML, Crashlytics, and Cloud Messaging, Supabase shines with lower costs, no vendor lock, a relational database, and performance. …