Vite + React + Supabase + Vercel
A short path from idea to a real product with auth, a database, and a public URL.
Circumstances — when to use it
- Solo dev or small team shipping an MVP in days, not months
- You need login, a relational database, and file storage without running servers
- Mostly client-rendered app behind a login screen, where SEO is not the priority
Synergy — how the pieces fit
Vite keeps the dev loop near-instant and emits a plain static bundle. Supabase covers the parts that normally require a backend team — Postgres, row level security, auth, storage, realtime — and is reached directly from the browser with a publishable key. Because the frontend is static, Vercel serves it from a CDN with zero server config. The seam between them is just HTTP, so you can later move privileged logic into edge functions without rewriting the UI.
The tech and its role
Architectural examples
Each example links to a public source — no claims about private internals.
Mobbin
Migrated about 200,000 users from Firebase to Supabase after hitting Firestore's limits on indexing and relational queries for a read-heavy app — evidence the Supabase layer holds up past the prototype stage.
sourceAtomic CRM (Marmelab)
An open-source CRM from the makers of react-admin: a Vite + React single-page app talking directly to Supabase for auth and Postgres. It isn't tied to Vercel, which shows the frontend host is interchangeable.
sourceSkip if
Skip if you need server-rendered marketing pages for SEO, or if your authorization rules are too complex to express as row policies.