How to Use Cursor Agent and Supabase to Maximize Productivity!

Cursor agent is taking the world by storm by allowing developers and builders to ship at record time! Combining it with Supabase, anyone can build a fully functional app with a scalable backend!

Learning and utilizing various tools around Cursor and Supabase is key to creating an efficient app development workflow. We will take a look at how we can use MCP, Supabase CLI, Cursor rules, giving Cursor Agent a screenshot, and many other techniques that could be used to streamline building modern, beautiful apps with the power of AI.

Pre-built Cursor rules: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/ai-prompts

Local development with Supabase CLI: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/local-development

Postgres MCP server: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/postgres

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro and outline

00:28 Start creating a frontend

01:07 Using Claude to generate instructions

05:17 Create a UI from a screenshot

09:50 Spinning up local Supabase instance

13:35 Setting up the tables

15:58 Connecting the app to local Supabase

18:37 Updating the schema to fix a UI issue

24:09 Intro to MCP to give database schema to the agent

28:47 Secure the app with RLS

34:21 Push the migration to the cloud version of Supabase

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