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parse-server
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010ās 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.
- Placemark is going open source and shutting down
- Thoughts on Parse Platform / Server
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Tools for scanning commits?
Prototype Pollution Fix
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How to set up a Parse Server backend with Typescript
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.
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A Guide On Appwrite
Parse
- [SERIOS] Solutie backend + DB pentru o aplicatie web
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Free online DB for production app
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.
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Backend (auth/payment) options for Flutter app and web.
Parse - https://parseplatform.org/
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Supabase Series B
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.
apollo-server
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React Server Components Example with Next.js
Another interesting point is that executing fetches on the server can allow developers to more easily leverage caching. Next.js already handles caching out-of-the-box and Iām curious to see if the wider adoption of RSC reduces the need to combine React with solutions like Apollo Server and Apollo Client. While there are other benefits to these tools, RSC could provide similar caching behavior without the need to invest in a GraphQL solution.
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Building Scalable GraphQL Microservices With Node.js and Docker: A Comprehensive Guide
There are several GraphQL server implementations, however, for this tutorial, we'll utilize Apollo GraphQL's Apollo Server, a lightweight and flexible JavaScript server that makes it easy to build GraphQL APIs.
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Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) ā Open-source, Python-based dbt alternative
As I mentioned, their main GraphQL server package is[1], so that's where the confusion came from. Thanks.
[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/9817bc47...
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Who moved my error codes? Adding error types to your GoLang GraphQL Server
While working on this blog post, I learned that Apollo Server, the most popular GraphQL server for typescript, uses a similar method for adding error codes to GraphQL. It even lets you add custom errors. Hopefully, someday other GraphQL server projects will follow them. Until then, weāve got a strong indication we took the right approach.
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Zero to Serverless Car Insurance - Part 2
GraphQL is just a schema, there are many different implementations of a GraphQL server, AppSync being one of them. I mentioned Apollo server in this series as well.
- How can i do query directives or executable directives?
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How we migrated to Apollo Server 4
After some head-scratching, I opened an issue on Apollo Serverās GitHub repository. There, Apollo Server contributor @āglasser shared a helpful suggestion: why not invoke our AuthPlugin from Apollo Serverās context function? Throwing from context would ensure we can control the HTTP status response without having to introduce more methods and error checks to our AuthPlugin (like unexpectedErrorProcessingRequest). With that suggestion in mind, we rewrote our AuthPlugin as follows:
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why would a developer choose nodejs over c#.net for backend?
Apollo as a middleware in Express.js, actually.
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Using Postman and Postman Interceptor to authenticate a session cookie based GraphQL API
Apollo Server 3 Cookie Issue #5775
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Custom API server with basic CRUD ā Apollo, GraphQL & MongoDB
Lastly, instead of writing our API core ourselves, we'll be using the star of this episodeā---āApollo Server (a.k.a. GraphQL server). It has detailed documentation available here.
What are some alternatives?
Appwrite - Build like a team of hundreds_
mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
graphql-mesh - The Graph of Everything - Federated architecture for any API service
nestjs-graphql - GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) š·
ObjectBox Java (Kotlin, Android) - Java and Android Database - fast and lightweight without any ORM
graphql-yoga - š§ Rewrite of a fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience. The core of Yoga implements WHATWG Fetch API and can run/deploy on any JS environment.
MongoDB - The MongoDB Database
express-graphql - Create a GraphQL HTTP server with Express.
Vapor - š§ A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.