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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.
Vapor
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Swiftly Chatting: Building Chatbots with Botter
Botter works in tandem with Vapor, which handles the server-side functions of your project. This powerful combination allows you to focus on what matters most - creating an engaging and effective chatbot.
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Issue with Vapor Server
// swift-tools-version: 5.8 // The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package. import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "MyServer", platforms: [.macOS("12.0")], products: [ // Products define the executables and libraries a package produces, and make them visible to other packages. .executable( name: "MyServer", targets: ["MyServer"]), ], dependencies: [ .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/vapor.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "4.70.0")), // Dependencies declare other packages that this package depends on. // .package(url: /* package url */, from: "1.0.0"), ], targets: [ // Targets are the basic building blocks of a package. A target can define a module or a test suite. // Targets can depend on other targets in this package, and on products in packages this package depends on. .executableTarget( name: "MyServer", dependencies: [ .product(name: "Vapor", package: "vapor") ]), .testTarget( name: "MyServerTests", dependencies: ["MyServer"]), ] )
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
Otherwise there's https://github.com/vapor/vapor
- A Look at the Crystal Programming Language for Humans
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Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
The Swift/Vapor project is a relatively easy way to do it.
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First contract, how much should I charge?
Opening this webpage (https://vapor.codes) cranks my CPU (5800x3d) to 100% instantly. Why?
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Vapor is the most popular non-Apple-ecosystem Swift project. There have been a few others, but none particularly popular.
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Idea for small project? (without touching any UI)
Server-side apps (typically via Vapor)
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Why I selected Elixir and Phoenix as my main stack
My first option other than PHP was using Swift and Vapor. I have made some projects with iOS and Objective-C, maybe I could also learn Swift and create both native iOS apps and backends with the same language.
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I've just released my new app which allows you to use your iPhone as a webcam when livestreaming
StreamCam is written 100% in Swift, SwiftUI & Combine. The serverside is handled with Vapor.
What are some alternatives?
Appwrite - Build like a team of hundreds_
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
nestjs-graphql - GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🍷
Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
ObjectBox Java (Kotlin, Android) - Java and Android Database - fast and lightweight without any ORM
hummingbird - Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
MongoDB - The MongoDB Database
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
inspect - Source Code that Powers the CSFloat Inspect Link API
GCDWebServer - The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server)