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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
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---
title: 'Build a User Management App with Ionic React'
description: 'Learn how to use Supabase in your Ionic React App.'
---
<$Partial path="quickstart_intro.mdx" />
![Supabase User Management example](/docs/img/ionic-demos/ionic-angular-account.png)
<Admonition type="note">
If you get stuck while working through this guide, refer to the [full example on GitHub](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/examples/user-management/ionic-react-user-management).
</Admonition>
<$Partial path="project_setup.mdx" variables={{ "framework": "ionicreact", "tab": "mobiles" }} />
## Building the app
Start building the React app from scratch.
### Initialize an Ionic React app
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
```
Install the only additional dependency: [supabase-js](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-js)
```bash
npm install @supabase/supabase-js
```
Save the environment variables in a `.env`. You need the API URL and the key that you copied [earlier](#get-api-details).
<$CodeTabs>
```bash name=.env
VITE_SUPABASE_URL=YOUR_SUPABASE_URL
VITE_SUPABASE_KEY=YOUR_SUPABASE_KEY
```
</$CodeTabs>
With the API credentials in place, create a helper file to initialize the Supabase client. These variables will be exposed
in the browser, which is safe because they use a restricted publishable key and the SQL quickstart enables [Row Level Security](/docs/guides/auth#row-level-security) on the `profiles` table.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/supabaseClient.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/supabaseClient.ts"
/>
### Set up a login route
Set up a React component to manage logins and sign ups which uses Magic Links, so users can sign in with their email without using passwords.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/pages/Login.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/pages/Login.tsx"
/>
### Account page
After a user signs in, they should be able to edit their profile details and manage their account.
Create a new component for that called `Account.tsx`.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/pages/Account.tsx"
lines={[[1, 15], [17, 124], [129, -1]]}
meta="name=src/pages/Account.tsx"
/>
### Launch!
Now that you have all the components in place, update `App.tsx`:
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/App.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/App.tsx"
/>
Once that's done, run this in a terminal window:
```bash
ionic serve
```
Then open your browser to the URL printed by `ionic serve` (by default, [http://localhost:8100](http://localhost:8100)) 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
```
[Capacitor](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 update `index.tsx` to include an additional bootstrapping call for the Ionic PWA Elements.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/index.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/index.tsx"
/>
Then create an `AvatarComponent`.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/components/Avatar.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/components/Avatar.tsx"
/>
### Add the new widget
And then add the widget to the Account page:
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/ionic-react-user-management/src/pages/Account.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=src/pages/Account.tsx"
/>
At this stage you have a fully functional application!