---
title: 'Build a User Management App with React'
description: 'Learn how to use Supabase in your React App.'
---

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![Supabase User Management example](/docs/img/user-management-demo.png)

<Admonition type="note">

If you get stuck while working through this guide, you can find the [full example on GitHub](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/examples/user-management/react-user-management).

</Admonition>

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## Building the app

Start building the React app from scratch.

### Initialize a React app

Use [Vite](https://vitejs.dev/guide/) to initialize an app called `supabase-react`:

```bash
npm create vite@latest supabase-react -- --template react
cd supabase-react
```

Install [supabase-js](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-js):

```bash
npm install @supabase/supabase-js
```

Save the environment variables in a `.env.local` file, using the Project URL and the key that you copied [earlier](#get-api-details).

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With the API credentials in place, create a helper file to initialize the Supabase client. The application exposes these variables in the browser, and that's fine as Supabase enables [Row Level Security](/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security) by default on all tables.

Create and edit `src/supabaseClient.js`:

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/supabaseClient.js"
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/>

### App styling (optional)

An optional step is to update the CSS file `src/index.css` to make the app look better.
You can find the full contents of this file [in the example repository](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supabase/supabase/master/examples/user-management/react-user-management/src/index.css).

### Set up a login component

You need a React component to manage logins and sign-ups. It uses [Magic Links](/docs/guides/auth/auth-email-passwordless#with-magic-link), so users can sign in with their email without using passwords.

<Admonition type="note" title="Did you know?">

You can customize other emails sent out to new users, including the email's looks, content, and query parameters from [the **Authentication > Email**](/dashboard/project/_/auth/templates) section of the Dashboard.

</Admonition>

Create and edit `src/Auth.jsx`:

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/Auth.jsx"
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meta="name=src/Auth.jsx"
/>

### Account page

After a user signs in, they need a way to edit their profile details and manage their accounts.

Create a new component called `src/Account.jsx` and add the following code:

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/Account.jsx"
lines={[[1, 2], [4, 66], [74, -1]]}
meta="name=src/Account.jsx"
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## Profile photos

Add a way for users to upload a profile photo. Supabase configures every project with [Storage](/docs/guides/storage) for managing large files like photos and videos.

### Create an upload widget

Create `src/Avatar.jsx` and add the following code:

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/Avatar.jsx"
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meta="name=src/Avatar.jsx"
/>

### Update the Account component

With the Avatar component created, update `src/Account.jsx` to include it:

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/Account.jsx"
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### Launch!

With all the components in place, change the contents of `src/App.jsx` to include the new components and Auth logic.

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path="/user-management/react-user-management/src/App.jsx"
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Once that's done, run this in a terminal window:

```bash
npm run dev
```

And then open the browser to [localhost:5173](http://localhost:5173) and you should see the completed app.

![Screenshot of the Supabase React application running in a browser](/docs/img/supabase-react-demo.png)

At this stage you have a fully functional application!