Job board on React Router v8, MySQL 8 and Supabase Auth

React Router v8 (framework mode): SSR, config/file routes under app/, loaders/actions, and resource routes for API endpoints.

MySQL 8 via Drizzle ORM and the mysql2 driver.

Supabase Auth: hosted identity (GoTrue) via the @supabase/ssr cookie client; email+password + OAuth.

Job board: employer companies, job postings with employment-type and status guards, a hiring-pipeline application tracker, and per-user candidate profiles.

Database client

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/mysql2";
import mysql from "mysql2/promise";

// ponytail: single module-level pool; the runtime + mysql2's pool handle concurrency,
// so no globalThis singleton dance needed.
const pool = mysql.createPool(process.env.DATABASE_URL!);

export const db = drizzle({ client: pool });

employer tenant records owned by a Better Auth user, anchoring all postings

individual listings with employment-type, status, and optional salary range in cents

candidate submissions against a posting, carrying a four-stage status from applied to hired

one-per-user profile row holding a headline and resume URL for applicants

Framework mode (not data/library mode): routes live under app/, declared in app/routes.ts. API endpoints are resource routes (a route module exporting loader/action but no default component).

Data flows through loaders (run on the server before render) and actions (mutations); components read it with useLoaderData / useActionData. There are no React Server Components — every server-rendered route is a loader plus a client component.

Auth gates in the loader, not in middleware: a protected route's loader calls requireAuth(request), which throws a redirect Response that React Router short-circuits on — so a logged-out user never reaches the protected data or renders the page.

The `@/` import alias maps to app/ (this framework's source root), so shared modules like @/lib/auth resolve under app/ — the one path prefix that differs from Next's src/, which is why the auth slice's mount code is framework-specific.

mysql2's pool multiplexes connections; drizzle-orm/mysql2 wraps it. One module-level pool is right for a serverless/edge app — the runtime and the pool handle concurrency.

MySQL has no row-level security: multi-tenant isolation is enforced in application code via the forOrg helper (src/lib/tenant.ts), not by the database. See the tenant-scoping section on SaaS pages.

Hosted: Supabase owns identity in its managed auth.users. This stack emits a LOCAL `user` mirror (db/auth-schema.ts) so app-type schemas can foreign-key `user` directly — keep it in sync with a Supabase trigger on auth.users (insert/update → public.user). The drizzle migration only owns the mirror table's shape, not the trigger.

Sessions are cookie-based (@supabase/ssr): the proxy refreshes them on every request; Server Components read the user via supabase.auth.getUser().

A unique constraint on (posting_id, applicant_id) in applications enforces one application per candidate per posting — duplicate submissions are rejected at the DB layer, not the application layer.

candidate_profiles carries a unique constraint on user_id (1:1 with Better Auth's user), so upsert logic can key on it; job_postings enforces employment_type and status values via CHECK rather than pgEnum, keeping migrations additive.

MySQL provides no row-level security. On MySQL, multi-tenant isolation is APP-ENFORCED via the forOrg helper (src/lib/tenant.ts), not database-enforced like Postgres RLS. Every org-scoped query MUST go through forOrg — a missed query leaks across tenants. Postgres cells enforce this in the database itself (RLS), so it holds even for a query that forgets to scope.

Job board

Hiring is two-sided, and this schema splits along that seam. companies and job_postings belong to the employer; candidate_profiles belongs to the applicant; applications is the only table that touches both. Each side keys into Better Auth's user.id as text — an employer is a user who owns a company row, a candidate is a user who owns a profile row — and nothing stops one person from being both, because neither side declares a role column. companies is the employer container: owner_id, a name, an optional website, and idx_company_owner so a signed-in recruiter reaches their company ids in one lookup. Postings cascade from it.

job_postings stores compensation as two nullable bigint columns, salary_min_cents and salary_max_cents — integer cents so no float touches money, and bigint rather than integer so a large annual figure in a weak currency cannot overflow the range. employment_type (full_time, part_time, contract) and status (open, closed) are text under the named CHECKs job_postings_type_check and job_postings_status_check, which keeps adding an internship type a constraint change rather than an ALTER TYPE. Its single index, idx_posting_company_status on (company_id, status), is built for the employer's own list of roles. applications is the pipeline.

status walks applied, screening, rejected, hired under applications_status_check, and the composite unique applications_posting_applicant_unique on (posting_id, applicant_id) makes one application per candidate per posting a database fact rather than a guard in a route handler — a resubmit fails outright, or becomes a no-op under ON CONFLICT. idx_application_posting serves the recruiter's read: everyone who applied to this role, one row each. candidate_profiles is strictly one-to-one with identity, since user_id is NOT NULL and UNIQUE against user.id, which makes it an upsert target instead of a list. The asymmetry is worth seeing before you build screens: every index here runs from an employer toward candidates. There is no index on applications.applicant_id, and the composite unique leads with posting_id, so a candidate's 'roles I applied to' page scans.

Nor is the public board covered — browsing open postings across companies cannot use (company_id, status). Both are one CREATE INDEX away, and neither ships in the migration.

React Router v8

React Router v8 in framework mode puts everything under app/, and `@/` maps to that root instead of Next's src/ — the one prefix that differs, which is why shared modules like @/lib/auth and @/db/schema stay byte-identical to their Next counterparts. initCode writes app/lib/db.ts, then the auth fragment adds app/lib/auth.ts, the resource route app/routes/api.auth.$.ts, and app/lib/require-auth.ts. The route table itself is app/routes.ts: routes are declared configuration, and a file becomes a URL because that table says so. There are no React Server Components here. Every server-rendered route is a loader plus an ordinary client component: the loader runs on the server before render, the component reads its result with useLoaderData, and mutations go through an action read back with useActionData.

An API endpoint is the same module minus the default export — a resource route, named with the flat dotted convention (app/routes/api.auth.$.ts for the auth splat, app/routes/webhooks.polar.ts for a webhook POST). Auth gates in the loader rather than in a middleware layer. A protected route awaits requireAuth(request) from app/lib/require-auth.ts, which calls auth.api.getSession({ headers: request.headers }) — a real server-side validation, not a cookie peek — and throws redirect("/sign-in") when there is no session. React Router treats a thrown Response as the route's outcome, so the loader short-circuits and neither the protected query nor the component ever runs. The trade that follows: there is no matcher array to widen and no edge tier to keep honest, but protection is per-route discipline.

A new route is protected because its loader calls requireAuth; forget the call and the page is public. In return, every gate sits one function call away from the data it guards, the session is already in hand when the loader queries db, and the same request-in / Response-out contract covers pages, API endpoints and the auth mount alike.

MySQL 8

MySQL 8 here is the mysql2 driver under Drizzle's mysql-core dialect: drizzle({ client: pool }) over one module-level mysql.createPool(DATABASE_URL). mysql2's pool multiplexes connections itself, so a single pool per module is the right shape — the runtime and the pool handle concurrency, with no globalThis singleton needed. The framework decides where that file lands (src/lib/db.ts on Next, app/lib/db.ts on React Router, server/lib/db.ts on Nuxt); the client text is the same in all three. The dialect's constraints show up directly in the column types.

MySQL cannot index a TEXT column without a prefix length, so anything that is a primary key, a UNIQUE, an index or a CHECK target is varchar with a declared length: ids are varchar(36) with no database default — the application generates them with crypto.randomUUID(), since there is no uuid type and no defaultRandom() — Better Auth's user.id and every FK pointing at it are varchar(255), an email or slug is varchar(255), a role or status varchar(32), a SHA-256 hex digest varchar(64). Free-form columns nobody indexes stay text. Timestamps are plain timestamp().defaultNow() without the withTimezone flag the Postgres bodies carry, and counters are bigint({ mode: "number" }). The operational difference that matters most: MySQL has no row-level security.

There is no policy layer to fall back on, so multi-tenant isolation is enforced in application code by forOrg(db, orgId) in src/lib/tenant.ts, which wraps each org-owned table's select/update/delete with a where on organization_id and throws on a missing orgId instead of quietly running unscoped. It is a real boundary only while every read and write goes through it — the shared plans catalog sits deliberately outside — and it is app-enforced, not database-enforced. Connections change with the deploy target: connectionLimit 2 per short-lived serverless instance, 10 in a long-running Node process, and on Cloudflare Workers mysql2 cannot run at all — there are no TCP sockets — so the edge client swaps to @planetscale/database over HTTP with drizzle-orm/planetscale-serverless.

Supabase Auth

Supabase Auth is a hosted service — GoTrue — that your app reaches over cookies rather than an SDK session object. Credentials and the canonical user records live in Supabase's managed auth.users schema. What lands in your own database is a mirror: db/auth-schema.ts declares user keyed by the Supabase auth uid (text; varchar(255) on MySQL) with email, full name, avatar URL and timestamps, so app-type schemas can foreign-key user exactly as they would under a self-hosted auth. Unlike the Clerk fragment, no sync webhook is emitted here, because Supabase's own trigger mechanism is the intended path: a trigger on auth.users writing into public.user lives in the Supabase project, not in the drizzle migration.

The migration owns the mirror's column shape and nothing else, so wiring that trigger is a step you take before those foreign keys mean anything. The mechanic that actually shapes this adapter is cookie refresh. @supabase/ssr rotates the auth token, and a rotated cookie only reaches the browser if something writes it onto the outgoing response — which is why every framework branch is built around the same getAll/setAll pair, wired to whatever that framework calls a cookie jar. Next's src/proxy.ts rebuilds the NextResponse inside setAll before calling getUser().

React Router has no middleware layer, so app/lib/supabase/server.ts constructs the client per request and returns { supabase, headers }, and the protected layout route attaches those headers to both exits — the redirect and the pass-through — so a refresh that happened during a guard is not lost. Nuxt's server/utils/supabase.ts binds the client to the h3 event and writes through setCookie, with a Nitro middleware doing the guard. Every decision point calls supabase.auth.getUser(), never getSession(): getSession reads whatever the cookie claims, getUser revalidates it against Supabase. Because a browser client is emitted alongside the server one, the auth screens are real forms calling supabase.auth.signInWithPassword rather than a hosted widget, and the sidebar's user menu subscribes to onAuthStateChange. Two consequences to plan around.

The anon key is public by design and is inlined into the client bundle under whichever prefix the framework demands (NEXT_PUBLIC_, VITE_, NUXT_PUBLIC_), so protection has to come from row-level security on Supabase's side, not from keeping the key quiet. And every guard is a network call to Supabase, not a local query — cheap, but not free, and on the path of every protected request.