Introduction to VAIF Studio

VAIF Studio is a backend for your app. Each project has a database with a generated REST API, sign-in for your app’s users, file storage, realtime updates and server-side functions, all managed from one console.

What a project gives you

• Database. Design tables in the console or with SQL migration files. Every table gets a REST data API, and row rules limit each user to their own rows.
• Authentication. Email and password, magic links, social sign-in, authenticator-app two-factor sign-in, password reset and device sessions for your app’s users.
• Realtime. Row-change subscriptions, broadcast messages and presence over one connection.
• Storage. Buckets with access policies, signed URLs and large-file uploads that can resume.
• Functions. Server-side code that runs on request, on a schedule or when rows change.
• Verament. Describe what you want, and Verament generates schemas and functions for your project.
• SDK and CLI. @vaifstudio/client for TypeScript and JavaScript, and the vaif command-line tool.

Your team signs in to the console with email, social sign-in, or single sign-on with OpenID Connect.

Where your data lives

Projects use a shared, managed database by default. Plans that include one can move a project to a dedicated database.

Your first steps

1. Create an account in the console.
2. Create a project and add a table.
3. Copy the project ID and the publishable key from Security > Credentials.
4. Install the SDK and connect your app.

import { createVaifClient } from "@vaifstudio/client";

const vaif = createVaifClient({
  baseUrl: "https://api.vaif.studio",
  projectId: process.env.VAIF_PROJECT_ID,
  apiKey: process.env.VAIF_PUBLISHABLE_KEY,
});

// Read rows
const { data: posts } = await vaif.from("posts").orderBy("created_at", "desc").limit(10).list();
console.log(posts);

// Get new rows as they are written
vaif
  .from("posts")
  .on("INSERT", (event) => console.log("new post", event.new))
  .subscribe();

A request with no signed-in user can read posts only if the table has a public rule. Tables are closed to such requests by default.

Next steps

• Quickstart
• Installation and setup
• SDKs
• Plans