Edge Functions

Integrating With Supabase Auth

Supabase Edge Functions and Auth.


Edge Functions work seamlessly with Supabase Auth.

Auth context

When a user makes a request to an Edge Function, you can use the Authorization header to set the Auth context in the Supabase client:


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import { createClient } from 'jsr:@supabase/supabase-js@2'
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Deno.serve(async (req: Request) => {
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const authHeader = req.headers.get('Authorization')!
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const supabaseClient = createClient(
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_URL') ?? '',
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_ANON_KEY') ?? '',
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{ global: { headers: { Authorization: authHeader } } }
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)
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})

Importantly, this is done inside the Deno.serve() callback argument, so that the Authorization header is set for each request.

Fetching the user

After initializing a Supabase client with the Auth context, you can use getUser() to fetch the user object, and run queries in the context of the user with Row Level Security (RLS) policies enforced.


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import { createClient } from 'jsr:@supabase/supabase-js@2'
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Deno.serve(async (req: Request) => {
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const supabaseClient = createClient(
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_URL') ?? '',
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_ANON_KEY') ?? '',
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)
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// Get the session or user object
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const authHeader = req.headers.get('Authorization')!
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const token = authHeader.replace('Bearer ', '')
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const { data } = await supabaseClient.auth.getUser(token)
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const user = data.user
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return new Response(JSON.stringify({ user }), {
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headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
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status: 200,
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})
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})

Row Level Security

After initializing a Supabase client with the Auth context, all queries will be executed with the context of the user. For database queries, this means Row Level Security will be enforced.


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import { createClient } from 'jsr:@supabase/supabase-js@2'
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Deno.serve(async (req: Request) => {
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const supabaseClient = createClient(
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_URL') ?? '',
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Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_ANON_KEY') ?? '',
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{ global: { headers: { Authorization: req.headers.get('Authorization')! } } }
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)
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// Database queries will have RLS policies enforced
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const { data, error } = await supabaseClient.from('profiles').select('*')
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return new Response(JSON.stringify({ data }), {
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headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
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status: 200,
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})
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})

Example code

See a full example on GitHub.