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

<QuickstartIntro />

![Supabase User Management example](/docs/img/ionic-demos/ionic-angular-account.png)

<Admonition type="note">

If you get stuck while working through this guide, refer to the [full example on GitHub](https://github.com/mhartington/supabase-ionic-react).

</Admonition>

<ProjectSetup />

## Building the app

Let's start building the React app from scratch.

### Initialize an Ionic React app

We can use the [Ionic CLI](https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli) to initialize
an app called `supabase-ionic-react`:

```bash
npm install -g @ionic/cli
ionic start supabase-ionic-react blank --type react
cd supabase-ionic-react
```

Then let's install the only additional dependency: [supabase-js](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-js)

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

And finally we want to save the environment variables in a `.env`.
All we need are the API URL and the `anon` key that you copied [earlier](#get-the-api-keys).

```bash .env
REACT_APP_SUPABASE_URL=YOUR_SUPABASE_URL
REACT_APP_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY
```

Now that we have the API credentials in place, let's create a helper file to initialize the Supabase client. These variables will be exposed
on the browser, and that's completely fine since we have [Row Level Security](/docs/guides/auth#row-level-security) enabled on our Database.

```js src/supabaseClient.js
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'

const supabaseUrl = process.env.REACT_APP_SUPABASE_URL
const supabaseAnonKey = process.env.REACT_APP_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY

export const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey)
```

### Set up a login route

Let's set up a React component to manage logins and sign ups. We'll use Magic Links, so users can sign in with their email without using passwords.

```jsx /src/pages/Login.tsx
import { useState } from 'react';
import {
  IonButton,
  IonContent,
  IonHeader,
  IonInput,
  IonItem,
  IonLabel,
  IonList,
  IonPage,
  IonTitle,
  IonToolbar,
  useIonToast,
  useIonLoading,
} from '@ionic/react';
import { supabase } from '../supabaseClient';

export function LoginPage() {
  const [email, setEmail] = useState('');

  const [showLoading, hideLoading] = useIonLoading();
  const [showToast ] = useIonToast();
  const handleLogin = async (e: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => {
    console.log()
    e.preventDefault();
    await showLoading();
    try {
      await supabase.auth.signIn({ email });
      await showToast({ message: 'Check your email for the login link!' });
    } catch (e: any) {
      await showToast({ message: e.error_description || e.message , duration: 5000});
    } finally {
      await hideLoading();
    }
  };
  return (
    <IonPage>
      <IonHeader>
        <IonToolbar>
          <IonTitle>Login</IonTitle>
        </IonToolbar>
      </IonHeader>

      <IonContent>
        <div className="ion-padding">
          <h1>Supabase + Ionic React</h1>
          <p>Sign in via magic link with your email below</p>
        </div>
        <IonList inset={true}>
          <form onSubmit={handleLogin}>
            <IonItem>
              <IonLabel position="stacked">Email</IonLabel>
              <IonInput
                value={email}
                name="email"
                onIonChange={(e) => setEmail(e.detail.value ?? '')}
                type="email"
              ></IonInput>
            </IonItem>
            <div className="ion-text-center">
              <IonButton type="submit" fill="clear">
                Login
              </IonButton>
            </div>
          </form>
        </IonList>
      </IonContent>
    </IonPage>
  );
}
```

### Account page

After a user is signed in we can allow them to edit their profile details and manage their account.

Let's create a new component for that called `Account.tsx`.

```jsx src/pages/Account.tsx
import {
  IonButton,
  IonContent,
  IonHeader,
  IonInput,
  IonItem,
  IonLabel,
  IonPage,
  IonTitle,
  IonToolbar,
  useIonLoading,
  useIonToast,
  useIonRouter
} from '@ionic/react';
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { supabase } from '../supabaseClient';

export function AccountPage() {
  const [showLoading, hideLoading] = useIonLoading();
  const [showToast] = useIonToast();
  const [session] = useState(() => supabase.auth.session());
  const router = useIonRouter();
  const [profile, setProfile] = useState({
    username: '',
    website: '',
    avatar_url: '',
  });
  useEffect(() => {
    getProfile();
  }, [session]);
  const getProfile = async () => {
    console.log('get');
    await showLoading();
    try {
      const user = supabase.auth.user();
      const { data, error, status } = await supabase
        .from('profiles')
        .select(`username, website, avatar_url`)
        .eq('id', user!.id)
        .single();

      if (error && status !== 406) {
        throw error;
      }

      if (data) {
        setProfile({
          username: data.username,
          website: data.website,
          avatar_url: data.avatar_url,
        });
      }
    } catch (error: any) {
      showToast({ message: error.message, duration: 5000 });
    } finally {
      await hideLoading();
    }
  };
  const signOut = async () => {
    await supabase.auth.signOut();
    router.push('/', 'forward', 'replace');
  }
  const updateProfile = async (e?: any, avatar_url: string = '') => {
    e?.preventDefault();

    console.log('update ');
    await showLoading();

    try {
      const user = supabase.auth.user();

      const updates = {
        id: user!.id,
        ...profile,
        avatar_url: avatar_url,
        updated_at: new Date(),
      };

      const { error } = await supabase.from('profiles').upsert(updates, {
        returning: 'minimal', // Don't return the value after inserting
      });

      if (error) {
        throw error;
      }
    } catch (error: any) {
      showToast({ message: error.message, duration: 5000 });
    } finally {
      await hideLoading();
    }
  };
  return (
    <IonPage>
      <IonHeader>
        <IonToolbar>
          <IonTitle>Account</IonTitle>
        </IonToolbar>
      </IonHeader>

      <IonContent>
        <form onSubmit={updateProfile}>
          <IonItem>
            <IonLabel>
              <p>Email</p>
              <p>{session?.user?.email}</p>
            </IonLabel>
          </IonItem>

          <IonItem>
            <IonLabel position="stacked">Name</IonLabel>
            <IonInput
              type="text"
              name="username"
              value={profile.username}
              onIonChange={(e) =>
                setProfile({ ...profile, username: e.detail.value ?? '' })
              }
            ></IonInput>
          </IonItem>

          <IonItem>
            <IonLabel position="stacked">Website</IonLabel>
            <IonInput
              type="url"
              name="website"
              value={profile.website}
              onIonChange={(e) =>
                setProfile({ ...profile, website: e.detail.value ?? '' })
              }
            ></IonInput>
          </IonItem>
          <div className="ion-text-center">
            <IonButton fill="clear" type="submit">
              Update Profile
            </IonButton>
          </div>
        </form>

        <div className="ion-text-center">
          <IonButton fill="clear" onClick={signOut}>
            Log Out
          </IonButton>
        </div>
      </IonContent>
    </IonPage>
  );
}
```

### Launch!

Now that we have all the components in place, let's update `App.tsx`:

```jsx src/App.tsx
import { Redirect, Route } from 'react-router-dom'
import { IonApp, IonRouterOutlet, setupIonicReact } from '@ionic/react'
import { IonReactRouter } from '@ionic/react-router'
import { supabase } from './supabaseClient'

import '@ionic/react/css/ionic.bundle.css'

/* Theme variables */
import './theme/variables.css'
import { LoginPage } from './pages/Login'
import { AccountPage } from './pages/Account'
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import { Session } from '@supabase/supabase-js'

setupIonicReact()

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const [session, setSession] = useState < Session > null
  useEffect(() => {
    setSession(supabase.auth.session())
    supabase.auth.onAuthStateChange((_event, session) => {
      setSession(session)
    })
  }, [])
  return (
    <IonApp>
      <IonReactRouter>
        <IonRouterOutlet>
          <Route
            exact
            path="/"
            render={() => {
              return session ? <Redirect to="/account" /> : <LoginPage />
            }}
          />
          <Route exact path="/account">
            <AccountPage />
          </Route>
        </IonRouterOutlet>
      </IonReactRouter>
    </IonApp>
  )
}

export default App
```

Once that's done, run this in a terminal window:

```bash
ionic serve
```

And then open the browser to [localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) and you should see the completed app.

![Supabase Ionic React](/docs/img/ionic-demos/ionic-react.png)

## Bonus: Profile photos

Every Supabase project is configured with [Storage](/docs/guides/storage) for managing large files like photos and videos.

### Create an upload widget

First install two packages in order to interact with the user's camera.

```bash
npm install @ionic/pwa-elements @capacitor/camera
```

[CapacitorJS](https://capacitorjs.com) is a cross platform native runtime from Ionic that enables web apps to be deployed through the app store and provides access to native device API.

Ionic PWA elements is a companion package that will polyfill certain browser APIs that provide no user interface with custom Ionic UI.

With those packages installed we can update our `index.tsx` to include an additional bootstrapping call for the Ionic PWA Elements.

```ts src/index.tsx
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import App from './App'
import * as serviceWorkerRegistration from './serviceWorkerRegistration'
import reportWebVitals from './reportWebVitals'

import { defineCustomElements } from '@ionic/pwa-elements/loader'
defineCustomElements(window)

ReactDOM.render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <App />
  </React.StrictMode>,
  document.getElementById('root')
)

serviceWorkerRegistration.unregister()
reportWebVitals()
```

Then create an **AvatarComponent**.

```jsx src/components/Avatar.tsx
import { IonIcon } from '@ionic/react';
import { person } from 'ionicons/icons';
import { Camera, CameraResultType } from '@capacitor/camera';
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { supabase } from '../supabaseClient';
import './Avatar.css'
export function Avatar({
  url,
  onUpload,
}: {
  url: string;
  onUpload: (e: any, file: string) => Promise<void>;
}) {
  const [avatarUrl, setAvatarUrl] = useState<string | undefined>();

  useEffect(() => {
    if (url) {
      downloadImage(url);
    }
  }, [url]);
  const uploadAvatar = async () => {
    try {
      const photo = await Camera.getPhoto({
        resultType: CameraResultType.DataUrl,
      });

      const file = await fetch(photo.dataUrl!)
        .then((res) => res.blob())
        .then(
          (blob) =>
            new File([blob], 'my-file', { type: `image/${photo.format}` })
        );

      const fileName = `${Math.random()}-${new Date().getTime()}.${
        photo.format
      }`;
      const { error: uploadError } = await supabase.storage
        .from('avatars')
        .upload(fileName, file);
      if (uploadError) {
        throw uploadError;
      }
      onUpload(null, fileName);
    } catch (error) {
      console.log(error);
    }
  };

  const downloadImage = async (path: string) => {
    try {
      const { data, error } = await supabase.storage
        .from('avatars')
        .download(path);
      if (error) {
        throw error;
      }
      const url = URL.createObjectURL(data!);
      setAvatarUrl(url);
    } catch (error: any) {
      console.log('Error downloading image: ', error.message);
    }
  };

  return (
    <div className="avatar">
    <div className="avatar_wrapper" onClick={uploadAvatar}>
      {avatarUrl ? (
        <img src={avatarUrl} />
      ) : (
        <IonIcon icon={person} className="no-avatar" />
      )}
    </div>

    </div>
  );
}
```

### Add the new widget

And then we can add the widget to the Account page:

```jsx src/pages/Account.tsx
// Import the new component

import { Avatar } from '../components/Avatar';

// ...
return (
  <IonPage>
    <IonHeader>
      <IonToolbar>
        <IonTitle>Account</IonTitle>
      </IonToolbar>
    </IonHeader>

    <IonContent>
      <Avatar url={profile.avatar_url} onUpload={updateProfile}></Avatar>
```

At this stage you have a fully functional application!
