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Supabase Silent Failures: How a Missing Error Destructure Can Break Your App
A developer discovers that Supabase mutations can silently fail without throwing errors, leaving data unchanged despite a success toast. The issue stems from the client library's convention of returning errors in an object rather than throwing exceptions. Without destructuring the error field, developers may never know their database operations failed.
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This is a classic gotcha in JavaScript's error-handling patterns, but it's also a reminder that libraries like Supabase should make silent failures harder to ignore.
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