Idea about plugins in supabase?

[Perfecto-always]

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The taught came to my mind when I was thinking about storing images in supabase, wouldn't it be nice if their was something like a plugin to compress images before storing it.

Additional context

As supabase says it's an open source alternative to firebase, one of its cool feature(at least to me) is it's plugins. Which in some cases serves as a complete replacement rather than creating their own backend.

I was wondering if supabase team is planning for any plugins like system maybe in the near future?

[eli5zen]

Hey @Perfecto-always , what would you suggest the contexts the plugins would run in should be?

As capabilities are different and depend on the host creating the context.

Different hosts/contexts I had in mind:

postgres-meta - Injection during the API generation process

Another example of a context would the postgres-meta server. Plugins would allow (for example) to exclude some tables/functions/views from the generated API. It can be a solution for issues similar to #7542 and #7563. The plugin would probably be executed somewhere around here.

Realtime Server - extend the real-time functionality

In the realtime feature family, I guess the Erlang VM would be another example of a context. Examples for plugins would be different failover strategies and extensions of the real-time "language syntax".

These are some of my thoughts :)

[Perfecto-always]

I don't really have any details on how we can achieve this was more of a question to know are there any plans for it appearing in future implementation.(I'm sorry if I misunderstood your question).
Some scenarios I would like to use plugins would be for image compression, stripe payments, invoice mailings.

[kiwicopple]

A lot of great ideas here! Thanks for bringing this up. We will definitely think of "plugins" in the future, but for now we mostly want to collaborate with others first: https://supabase.com/partners/integrations

We'll put a but of work into the integrations platform, and then we will probably fill any gaps which our users need.

You can keep this thread for ideas for the future - ideally you create a single comment (and justification) per idea, so that others can upvote their favourites 👍

[landsman]

I'm interested in such a thing. I would love to write my own plugin for email sending, over my custom backend: https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/18488