Supabase Cli Local Development Database Migrations

---
name: "Supabase CLI for Local Development and Database Migrations"
slug: "supabase-cli-local-development-database-migrations"
description: "Supabase CLI manages local Supabase projects, database migrations, types, and edge functions. It is the upstream command-line tool for developers who need to work against Supabase from the terminal and CI."
github_stars: 2112
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/supabase/cli"
author: "Supabase"
publisher_type: "Company"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "supabase/cli"
  github_stars: 2112
  npm_package: "supabase"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 1190551
---

# Supabase CLI for Local Development and Database Migrations

Supabase CLI manages local Supabase projects, database migrations, types, and edge functions. It is the upstream command-line tool for developers who need to work against Supabase from the terminal and CI.

## Prerequisites

Go, Node.js

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm i supabase --save-dev
- npm i supabase@beta --save-dev
- brew install supabase/tap/supabase
- brew install supabase/tap/supabase-beta

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- For Bun versions below v1.0.17, you must add supabase as a [trusted dependency](https://bun.sh/guides/install/trusted) before running bun add -D supabase.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Available via [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com) as dev dependency. To install:
- bash
- To install the beta release channel:

- Source: https://github.com/supabase/cli
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supabase/cli/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://supabase.com/docs/reference/cli/about

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/supabase-cli-local-development-database-migrations/)