parse-server

Parse Server for Node.js / Express (by parse-community)

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  • The 2024 Web Hosting Report
    37 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024
    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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    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
  • Thoughts on Parse Platform / Server
    1 project | /r/node | 17 Jan 2023
  • Tools for scanning commits?
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 28 Dec 2022
    Prototype Pollution Fix
  • How to set up a Parse Server backend with Typescript
    2 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022
    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.
  • A Guide On Appwrite
    4 projects | dev.to | 12 Nov 2022
    Parse
  • [SERIOS] Solutie backend + DB pentru o aplicatie web
    3 projects | /r/programare | 1 Sep 2022
  • Free online DB for production app
    1 project | /r/flutterhelp | 29 Aug 2022
    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.
  • Backend (auth/payment) options for Flutter app and web.
    5 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 20 Aug 2022
    Parse - https://parseplatform.org/
  • Supabase Series B
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2022
    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/

  • A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
    workos.com | 19 Apr 2024
    The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning. Learn more →

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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