Building and deploying a Full Stack coolors clone (Nextjs 14, Supabase, Clerk, and Typescript) – Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we covered the initial setup of our Full Stack coolors clone project using technologies like Next.js 14, Supabase, Clerk, and TypeScript. In this part, we will dive deeper into the implementation of the project by focusing on building the front end functionality, integrating the backend services, and deploying the application to a hosting service.

Building the Frontend

Now that we have our project set up, it’s time to start building the front end of our coolors clone application. We will create the UI components using React and Next.js, and we will use Tailwind CSS for styling.

Creating the ColorPicker Component

To allow users to pick colors for their palettes, we need to create a ColorPicker component. This component will include a color input field and a color palette to display the selected colors.

import { useState } from 'react';

const ColorPicker = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState('#ffffff');
  const [colors, setColors] = useState([]);

  const handleColorChange = (e) => {
    setColor(e.target.value);
  };

  const addColor = () => {
    setColors([...colors, color]);
    setColor('#ffffff');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <input type="color" value={color} onChange={handleColorChange} />
      <button onClick={addColor}>Add Color</button>
      <div>
        {colors.map((c) => (
          <div key={c} style={{ backgroundColor: c, width: '50px', height: '50px' }} />
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

export default ColorPicker;

Integrating Backend Services

Next, we need to integrate our backend services – Supabase for storing user data and palettes, and Clerk for authentication – into our application. We will use the official client libraries to interact with these services.

Setting Up Supabase

# Install Supabase client
npm install @supabase/supabase-js

import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';

const supabaseUrl = 'https://yourproject.supabase.co';
const supabaseKey = 'yourapikey';

const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseKey);

export default supabase;

Deploying the Application

Finally, we are ready to deploy our Full Stack coolors clone application to a hosting service. We will use Vercel for this tutorial, but you can choose any other hosting service like Netlify or Heroku.

Deploying to Vercel

First, we need to create a Vercel account and install the Vercel CLI.

# Install Vercel CLI
npm install -g vercel

Next, run the following command in your project directory to deploy the application to Vercel.

vercel

Follow the prompt to set up your project and deploy it to Vercel.

That’s it! You have successfully built and deployed your Full Stack coolors clone application using Next.js 14, Supabase, Clerk, and TypeScript. Now, you can start customizing the application and adding more features to make it your own.