Which alternatives would people recommend?
firebase, it is owned by google. Or roll your own observer pattern pub sub document api service.
Facebook is closing Parse
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#62Wow. The 30 minutes you saved by using parse turns into a major headache. This makes me hesitant to use react and react-native.
Why? React and React Native are both pretty core to Facebook's main applications these days (all of Instagram is written in React, there's a smattering of components all over the main Facebook page, and multiple Facebook-written applications are written in React Native, including parts of the main Facebook app). In contrast, Parse was more of a dev-infrastructure product that didn't end up impacting developer relations as much as Facebook wanted it to (I'm guessing)
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#63Wow. 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.
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#64Wonder why they actually shut down? Seems like it was an unexpected decision. http://blog.parse.com/events/announcing-f8-2016/
The NYT article has some pretty good explanation here.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/facebook-to-shut-do...
"Facebook also would have had to invest untold millions of dollars in capital and, more importantly, engineering talent, to get the Parse business fully off the ground to have a better chance at making a dent in competitors like Amazon, Microsoft and Google."
That old blog post doesn't make sense any more - we should just take it down.
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#65>We’re proud that we’ve been able to help so many of you build great mobile apps, but we need to focus our resources elsewhere. I read this as "our Facebook overlords have decided that our revenue/head can be dramatically increased if redeployed on a different part of the overall company, so they have decided to shut Parse down and move us elsewhere." Which is a perfectly fair business decision but this is really sad…
If resource is the question, then I wonder how come they are sustaining WhatsApp? Its a zero-profit activity, the users chat amongst themselves, what does FB gain from that? I guess the parse resource traffic would be little compared to terabytes flowing through the WhatsApp every day.
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#66Goddammit! I built a service on top of Parse and Yahoo Pipes. And I JUST finished porting the Pipe stuff to Lambda.. Oh well, nice of them to provide a DB migration tool and an open source server.
Upsides and downsides to roll your own. Your timing seems pretty unlucky though ;)
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#67Which alternatives would people recommend?
I would recommend Parse. It's open source and used in production by thousands of companies.
https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server
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#68This is much worse than Google closing Google Reader.
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#69It's really hard to build trust when products disappear. Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar. Recall all of the wonderful social graph access that once existed and see, now, the wake of crippled API's where they once lived. Since it is impossible to build everything from scratch, some compromise must be made, but I wonder whether that compromise can reas…
> Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar.
The danger is using something closed-source and proprietary. Most of the popular products/services released by Google and Facebook are open-source, at least.
Even in this case, Parse provided open-source tools that will keep legacy code running with minimal changes. I think it's about the best-case scenario you could ask for when a closed-source platform is shut down.
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#70Parse was the go-to platform for those who wanted to concentrate on their end product.I know people with (day to week)-old ideas who could set up the complete application using parse.It not only made life simpler for everyone but greatly supported rapid prototyping and not having to go through the hassle that comes with building your own stack.Yes I know there are combinations of several SAAS and IAAS which can fill the void,but no one can come close to the single stop solution that Parse provided. I hoped that Facebook would do with parse what Twitter did with Fabric(Yes I know that Fabric has ads as a business,but crashlytics is a god send for mobile developers). Nevertheless I hope more Parse like solutions are yet come.