SupabaseS
Supabase•2y ago
lucksp

server-side database queries warning without session persist

I setup my app like a typical API where the client side auth is handled with Supabase OAUTH. Then it sends requests to backend, and my backend currently queries supabase. The reason for this is 1) i am a Front end dev so my knowledge of SQL is level 0.1 and 2) I do a decent amount of computation, or secondary queries on additional tables so I want to handle this on the server instead of mobile app JS code bundle.
However, when I send my Auth token in the header from the client, and check on my server that the token is valid to ensure my API is secure, I get some warnings:

No storage option exists to persist the session, which may result in unexpected behavior when using auth.
and
If you want to set persistSession to true, please provide a storage option or you may set persistSession to false to disable this warning.

My server is instantiated like:
export const supabase = createClient<Database>(
  SUPABASE_MFI_URL,
  SUPABASE_MFI_API
);

and then i use supabase to check the session passed in the request header:
const user = await supabase.auth.getUser(req.headers.authorization);


Is this flow "normal" for Supabase? Or with Supabase, is there any reason to send requests from my client side app, through my node/express backend, which handles the supabase server query as opposed to just doing it all on client side?
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