Migrating My Notes App to Supabase

Every now and then I put a service, API, framework, etc on my list of things to look at, and when I eventually get around to it, I wish I had made the time sooner. That's absolutely the case today. About two weeks ago I blogged about how I used TinyJS to build a desktop note application. This worked great and made use of a local SQLite database on the machine for storage. I was curious about how I'd migrate this to a "real" network based storage system that could be used in multiple places and tied to a particular account. I asked my AI agent (in this case, Claude, which I tend to use for all of my ad hoc questions about stuff) if Supabase would be an appropriate solution for this, and the response I got impressed the heck out of me. I knew Supabase was an online database system, and honestly, that's about all I knew. What I found out was it included a heck of a lot more. As just a high level overview, you get: A built-in REST API for your database. Like as soon as you've got a table,…

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