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parse-server
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
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.
- 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.
[0] https://parseplatform.org/
graphql-spec
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Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC
GraphQL's first draft release was 8 years ago. [1]
It's first non-draft release was 5 years ago. [2]
It's first release under a community foundation was 2 years ago. [3]
[1] https://spec.graphql.org/July2015/
[2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/June201...
[3] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/October...
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Intro to PostGraphile V5 (Part 3): Introspection and Abstraction
I'm a big believer in GraphQL (in fact, at time of writing I'm #2 contributor to the GraphQL spec itself) so it pains me that a tool I built doesn't always have easy ways to achieve the "versionless schema" design that GraphQL encourages when it comes to making significant breaking changes to your underlying database tables. (Personally, I think you should aim for your database schema itself to be versionless, but this is not always possible.) Of course you can build your PostGraphile schema over views instead of tables, but views have their own problems that I won't go into here…
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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
I created a proposal for Map type but didn’t make it through.
https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/pull/888
The issue with GraphQL is it tries to appease too many masters.
Similar to jsx. The language isn’t evolving.
The good thing is the spec is (almost) frozen, so there’s many implementations, the bad is it can encompass the flexibility of json schema can do.
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GraphQL Live Queries with live directive
Longer thread - Subscriptions RFC: Are Subscriptions and Live Queries the same thing?
https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/284
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Ask HN: Tutorials Written with Heavy Dependencies
You’ve probably figured it out by now, but for others who may be in a similar position; GraphQL is a specification (with various implementations) and you can read up on the spec here: https://spec.graphql.org/
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GraphQL object schemas - how to represent (and query?) Graph (hierarchical objects) in GraphQL?
If you're asking whether GraphQL supports anonymous objects that can be arbitrarily nested then no, it doesn't.
- Union for an input to a mutation arg
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Thanks graphql, I hate it.
show this feature request some love https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/174
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Deprecation Notice: GraphQL for Packages
* Performance: It's just hard to track down what makes an operation slow. The waterfall nature of resolvers is a big contributor
[1] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/488
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GraphQL error handling to the max with Typescript, codegen and fp-ts
:::note GraphQL Union is available for Types only, not for Inputs. However, the oneOf directive will bridge the gap in the future.
What are some alternatives?
Appwrite - Build like a team of hundreds_
apollo-server - 🌍 Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
Hasura - Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
nestjs-graphql - GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🍷
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
ObjectBox Java (Kotlin, Android) - Java and Android Database - fast and lightweight without any ORM
Neo4j - Graphs for Everyone
MongoDB - The MongoDB Database
graphql-shield - 🛡 A GraphQL tool to ease the creation of permission layer.
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)