awesome-appwrite VS parse-server

A big part of growing Appwrite’s developer ecosystem is providing the right platform for our builders to showcase their works with Appwrite to our community so that they can gain better visibility, feedback, and usage. For the last couple of years, that has exclusively been the awesome-appwrite repository we have on Appwrite’s GitHub organization.

You should now have a good understanding of how Appwrite works, its features, and services. You can join Appwrite's Discord community here. to learn more about it. You can also visit its webpage. or repository .for additional information and resources.

Hacktoberfest may be over, but you don’t have to stop contributing! We have lots of open issues that you can find on our GitHub repo. Moreover, many of our Hacktoberfest issues are still open for assignment! You can also write articles, create tutorials, or build demo apps and add them to our Awesome Appwrite repo. There are always new ways to support the community, and we truly love all the contributions you make. If you need help with Appwrite or would like to explore some interesting ways to contribute, join us on our Discord server and connect with the Appwrite community ❤️.

You can check out our relatively new Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Appwrite - there also more video tutorials available by community members and more resources on: https://github.com/appwrite/awesome-appwrite

Our list of awesome tutorials, videos, and demos keeps growing. Head to the awesome-appwrite repo to check them out.

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30 days of Appwrite is now updated, have you checked them out already? 30 Days of Appwrite - Appwrite 30 Days of Appwrite is a month long event focused at teaching you about all of Appwrite's core concepts and getting you ready to build production ready apps with Appwrite. 30days.appwrite.io We are awaiting to see what you build, be sure to drop them here .

We are awaiting to see what you build, be sure to drop them here.

We have a bunch of Appwrite related resources over at https://github.com/appwrite/awesome-appwrite which you can also check out

Hacktoberfest may be over but you don’t have to stop contributing! We have lots of open issues that you can find on our GitHub repo. Moreover, many of our Hacktoberfest issues are still open for assignment! You can also write articles, create tutorials or build demo apps and add them to our Awesome Appwrite repo. There are always new ways to support the community and we truly love all the contributions you make. If you need help with Appwrite or would like to explore some interesting ways to contribute, join us on our Discord server and connect with the Appwrite community ❤️.

Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010’s with companies like Parse and Firebase. These products integrated everything a backend provides to a webapp in a single, integrated package that makes it easier to get started and enables you to offload some of the devops maintenance work to someone else.

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Parse Server is a great way to quickly spin up a backend for your project. Parse is a Node based utility that sits on top of ExpressJS.

Parse

You can try https://parseplatform.org/, it is self-hosted if you need. And also there are a number of cloud services with compatible API, like https://www.back4app.com/ It has dart-friendly generated API client, much simpler than firebase and is built on top of postgresql and mongodb.

Parse - https://parseplatform.org/

Not to crash the party or anything. Supabase is great and all but in terms of feature completeness and getting actual products built, it doesn't come close to Parse[0].

Same with Appwrite. Both of these are very popular but they either lack essential features or have them behind a subscription wall. For example, the OSS version of Supabase (last I checked) doesn't include the edge functions which are really important for easily computing stuff on the server side. Parse on the other hand is 100% open source and has a huge feature set. It's older than all of these lo-code tools and actually helps solve the issues one comes across when using such tools.

Another thing is extending these tools which is a pain. For example, Parse supports multiple databases by default (postgres & MongoDB) and the ability to write a custom adapter if you need something else. Similarly, if you at any point need to go 100% custom it also makes that possible so you are never locked in. These tools however don't have that level of low-level control and are general all or nothing kind of tools best for small-to-medium sized problems which don't have a lot of room to grow.

But both of these (Appwrite & Supabase) are super markety. Appwrite is all over the place with their ads, Supabase got a huge trend when it launched etc. Parse on the other hand is not too good at marketing their product being fully community run which is one reason not many know of it. Another is their not-so-fancy docs.

I have no stake in any of these products: just my conclusion after having tried all of these.

[0] https://parseplatform.org/