Facebook is closing Parse • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by codek » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 10:11 AM UTC

gfosco wrote: post #185

intellegacy wrote: post #149

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how long does the full migration and setting the digitical ocean box take to do? debating whether i should do that, or just start over with firebase

Migration is based on data size, but setting up the API server on a new VPS is quick... I'd say less than one hour from a fresh image on Digital Ocean. I'll try to publish a guide for that part.

Yes, that would be awesome! Please post a guide to move to digital ocean...

Thanks and best; C

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by conan311 » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC

Hi Guys, after a few hours of googling (trust me, I spent my whole Sunday being so pissed of at Facebook and researching alternatives to Parse.com), I arrived in this awesome page. I read a few comments below and it seems like I just found an oasis! With this open source project, do you guys think it would be still possible for an app to support FB sign in features?

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by techaddict009 » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 1:25 PM UTC

rpedela wrote: post #294

techaddict009 wrote: post #263

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They have already did that: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/introducing-parse-server...

I don't see anything about the dashboard in the blog post?

Sorry my mistake. They have just open sourced the server not the dashboard. But some one has said they are going to open source the dashboard and all soon.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by conan311 » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 11:11 AM UTC

Hi Guys, I am trying to set up Parse Server and a Mongo DB locally on my mac. When I run Parse Server, I got this message "DATABASE_URI not specified, falling back to localhost". However, I did provide the DATABASE_URI. Probably I am so noob and didn't fully get it. The following is what I provided. Please advice me.

var api = new ParseServer({ databaseURI: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dev', cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js', appId: 'xxxx', masterKey: 'xxxx', });

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by dabodmb » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

ptz wrote: post #524

I just found this: http://yourparse.com

There is even a kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clintjohnson/parsenext-...

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by pbreit » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

tbranyen wrote: post #197

pbreit wrote: post #128

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So that will have been nearly 4 years ago.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

I don't get it. And I'm a golfer.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by rezaqt » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 6:01 AM UTC

[Kii employee here] We've been getting many inquiries at Kii Corporation from Parse customers about migration. To get you started: https://en.kii.com/parse-migration/

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by helloanand » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 6:15 AM UTC

Worth a read - The dirty little secrets of transitioning away from Parse https://medium.com/@suniltom/the-dirty-little-secrets-of-tra...

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by codeisawesome » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 10:53 PM UTC

codeisawesome wrote: post #458

scriptstar wrote: post #433

Totally disappointed with this announcement. Facebook is making billions of dollars of profit but can't keep up the lights at Parse. I will think twice to jump on these platforms next time. Now, I am more sceptical of using ReactJS, ReactNative and other stuff from the FB spearheads. Perhaps a high time to learn typescript and angular2.

ReactJS is a no-no from the get go. Facebook's Patent grant on what is supposed to be an "open source product" is ridiculous: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS . "If you ever start a patent conflict with Facebook in court, (worse but even more likely:) or if Facebook starts a patent litigation against you, you LOSE all your rights to use React in ANY product throughout your company and MUST stop u…

Here's an answer I found: Vidom (https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom)

It's faster than React or Angular 2 in one benchmark methodology: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by stefybiber » Thu, Feb 04, 2016, 10:25 AM UTC

This thing has disturbed everyone who have hosted their apps on Parse platform, they are looking for an alternate solution. I am also one of them.

I have already talked with various app development platform providers and check their platforms. I found Configure.IT as the nice solution compared to other platforms. Actually my 10 to 15 apps are on Parse. So I am bit worried about it. Now After checking all the solutions, Finally I reached to a decision.

I also want to guide all the people who are passing through the same situation as I am passing. I have checked all the features and facilities provided by this platform and also talked with the authorized persons of this platform. Really a genuine one.

So finally I have given the project of my apps migration to Configure.IT ( http://www.configure.it/ ) and they are doing it very nicely. Thanks to whole team. Thanks a lot.