Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
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Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
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Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#2When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read:
"Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all the server-side functionality developers need for rich, internet enabled applications."
Can someone describe the exact value proposition of Parse, for me as a indie developer of Mac OS X apps?
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#3When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read: "Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all t…
They offer BaaS and for many apps can remove the need to setup, configure and administrate any form of backend. I'm not sure about OSX, but they've written a bunch of convenience methods for iOS and Android that are fantastic for rapidly iterating early versions of software.
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#4When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read: "Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all t…
According to their meta description tag, "Parse is a complete technology stack to power your mobile app's backend."
According to their SDK Introduction, "The Parse platform provides a complete backend solution for your mobile application. Our goal is to totally eliminate the need for writing server code or maintaining servers. If you're familiar with web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, we've taken many of the same principles and applied them to our platform. In particular, our SDK is ready to use out of the box with minimal configuration on your part."
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#5Dev Guide page gives 404 https://parse.com/docs/osx_guide
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#6Parse sounds awesome. I'm learning iOS development atm... I definitely need to look into this.
If you are to integrate it with a web app (like Instagram also is a webapp now), would you still use parse then? How would that work out?
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#7When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read: "Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all t…
Glad I'm not the only one scratching my head on just WHAT Parse actually is.
The way their website seems go out of its way to NOT tell you what it is made me wonder if it's some convoluted Flash-to-ObjC doodad (or some other, similarily 'unpopular' way of doing things). At least they have a healthy ratio of cloud icons, pricing links and testimonials on the site...? ;)
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#8Dev Guide page gives 404 https://parse.com/docs/osx_guide
Fixed - the OS X guide is actually combined with the iOS guide. Try again, from the link at https://parse.com/apps/quickstart#osx/blank !
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#9Parse sounds awesome. I'm learning iOS development atm... I definitely need to look into this. If you are to integrate it with a web app (like Instagram also is a webapp now), would you still use parse then? How would that work out?
You can use the JavaScript SDK[1] to build a webapp companion quite easily. This is how we implemented the mobile webapp version of our Anypic app[2].
Parse also has a REST API[3] which can be used from your web application backend of choice.
[1]: https://parse.com/docs/js_guide [2]: https://anypic.org [3]: https://parse.com/docs/rest
Re: Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
#10When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read: "Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all t…
With the amount a Parse spamming that's done on this site, the fact that you're asking this question indicates a total marketing failure on their part.
Spamming this forum with Parse stories apparently hasn't gotten the message across. MOVE ON.