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After announcing the official shutdown of the hosted Parse service, an open source version was released. It can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run NodeJS, works with the Express web application framework and can be added to existing web applications, or run by itself. Parse Server is the best open source option to explore for those who search for alternative for the Hosted MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service). It has the potential to be one of t ...

Choosing your Parse Server provider could be important decision, if you’ve decided to go with a third party solution. A lot of new companies and providers came on the market during the last year, which is awesome, because you have more options to choose from. This also creates competition which pushes providers to improve the quality of the service and to give better terms in order to gain more customers. On the other hand you may feel confused - everybody ...

Time flies fast. It’s been 10 months since Parse announced the future retirement of their hosted service. Many of you still feel uncertain about starting the migration process. We do understand your reasons - you need more time to see how the situation is going to develop, which new path to choose - self hosted backend or third party provider, you still wonder how stable are the fresh Parse Server providers. The actual migration also may scare you - you’ve ...

Push notifications allow you to stay in touch with your users and make it possible for your users to communicate with each other. Before you begin, remember that push notifications are not available in the iOS Simulator. You will need an iOS device, as well as an Apple certificate to complete this tutorial. Create your APNS (iOS) credentials Creating your Apple Push Notification Service credentials is actually the longest part of this tutorial. Log in to ...

Last few days our clients had problems with Apps that used GCM credentials to send push notifications to Android devices. This was caused by the fact that Google recently released improved version of GCM API under the Firebase brand - FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging). Although Google says that they will continue to support the current version of GCM Android and iOS SDKs, they highly recommend everyone to upgrade to FCM in order to benefit from new FCM featur ...

We, SashiDo’s team, like to dream big, because setting up the bar high is the way to achieve awesome results. We wanted to create a service, offering every feature from Parse so you wouldn’t miss anything when coding your favourite apps, to give to you a REAL PARSE ALTERNATIVE. After launching so many of them and putting a lot of effort into improving the service, it was clear: it’s time to expand and cover more hosting location. Since most of you asked fo ...

One of the guideline policy that Parse created was to try to make everything convenient for their users and that was one of the main reasons developers loved the service. SashiDo’s team wants to keep this tradition by providing our customers the same experience of comfort and effortless coding. I’m sure this happened to you: you get an order for an app, but the customer also wants a website with it. So you have to use one provider for the mobile applicati ...

How to set up Twilio for local development In the first part of this tutorial we showed you how to make npm package integrations directly into your Advanced Cloud Code. But let’s say you want to test something on your computer before deploying it on SashiDo’s Cloud Code. This tutorial is for Mac OS X (for other OS should something similar) First you should install nvm (Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions). ...

Setup of Twilio package tutorial Building more complex apps without a lot of knowledge about back-ends and infrastructure sounds difficult, but we believe in Parse’s vision for letting developers create any app effortlessly. When we first launched early access for SashiDo, most of our lovely users asked for Advanced Cloud Code and we do understand why - it’s essential feature, because it’s flexible, allows you to write Express applications and use differ ...

Even before our early access, we had the vision to make SashiDo The Real Parse alternative.As we promised you, step by step we include more and more features to our service so you wouldn’t miss anything.And that’s just the beginning of our journey :) We’re very excited to share the latest news - SashiDo now supports: Background Jobs Give you the option to write long running tasks, include them in your Cloud Code and set up how often you want to run them. N ...