Building a Live Chat Feature

Welcome to building a live chat! Instant messaging is a perfect example of where realtime capabilities shine.

Users expect their messages to appear instantly without refreshing. Supabase Realtime makes this surprisingly simple.

In this lesson, we'll connect the dots: sending messages to your database and instantly receiving new messages from others.

First, we need a place to store our chat messages. A simple table is all it takes!

We'll create a messages table with columns for the message text, who sent it, and when it was sent.

• id: Primary Key, unique identifier.
• text: The message content (type: TEXT).
• user_id: Who sent the message (type: UUID, linked to auth.users).
• created_at: When the message was sent (type: TIMESTAMPTZ, default to now()).