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Facebook is closing Parse

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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by jtchang »

One of the reasons you need to pick hosted services very carefully is just this type of scenario. Especially when you are deciding where your data lives.

I give a tremendous amount of respect though to the Parse team for open sourcing the server. Like holy crap they released their entire code base. It must have been especially tough since you have to go through it and clean everything up. Too bad they didn't include the commit history (I certainly understand why they did it). Commit histories are generally the most interesting.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by rokhayakebe »

zenojevski wrote: post #25
ape4 wrote: post #3

Maybe its not such a good idea after all to code your app to a proprietary API in the cloud.

…except that this just has just become an open-source API that is self-hosted?

...except being able to integrate with an API does not mean you have the ability to self host, run, and maintain the product.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by fierycatnet »

Hm. I personally haven't used Parse and I didn't even know they were with Facebook but I've seen it mentioned as a pretty popular back-end platform for Android apps (for example). What's the alternative then? AWS probably then?

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Post by dozy »

kuzmin wrote: post #59

Currently using Parse for Push notifications (it's simple to send a request to Parse and it handles iOS vs Android issues). Is there any tool out there that has similar functionality? Ie. you register all your users devices there and they simplify the sending of push notifications.

Appboy, Kahuna, or (shameless plug) mParticle if you want multiple options :)

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by heraclez »

minimaxir wrote: post #24

Odd. The Parse SDK had a new release one month ago : http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/14/parse-launches-sdk-support-... That makes this decision seem very sudden.

And that's not all. Parse just did a full rebranding, including a full frontend overhaul of its dashboard.

What the hell is going on?

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by mmanfrin »

Man, this is an example of how to shutter a service gracefully. 1 year heads up and an open source replacement for their service with export tools to port the data in to a format that replacement can use.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by nutate »

smt88 wrote: post #63
grandalf wrote: post #39

Wow. The 30 minutes you saved by using parse turns into a major headache. This makes me hesitant to use react and react-native.

I'd be hesitant to use anything released by a large company that they don't use themselves for their flagship product(s). Angular 1 comes to mind. I believe Facebook does use React for facebook.com, but not React Native for anything in production yet.

React Native powers Groups and their ad manager: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by hire_charts »

grandalf wrote: post #39

Wow. The 30 minutes you saved by using parse turns into a major headache. This makes me hesitant to use react and react-native.

The major difference though is that react is a self-hosted open source library. Yes, Facebook could drop support for it, but there are enough people using it now that it would probably see community updates for quite a while.
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