Parse.com closes

    Hello friends!

    According to information from the official blog , the well-known and popular among developers of mobile (and not only) applications, the Parse.com service will stop its work.

    The service will be completely disabled on January 28, 2017 - existing users have exactly one year to migrate data and transfer their applications to another place.

    To do this, the Parse team released a utility for migrating data from Parse to MongoDB and Parse Server - an open-source solution that will allow (to some extent) transfer the API functionality to their equipment.

    The Migration Guide suggests moving existing applications in two steps:
    • transferring data to MongoDB's own database (the API will still be available through api.parse.com)
    • installation and configuration of your own Parse Server with the subsequent transfer of the API to it

    The bad news is that Parse Server is not 100% implementing Parse.com functionality. So, according to the documentation, are not supported:
    • Cloud Code modules (third-party libraries are suggested)
    • Analytics (it is proposed to use other services, for example Mixpanel or Google Analytics)
    • Config
    • Dashboard (no UI to administer out of the box)
    • iOS in-app purchase verification
    • Jobs (suggested to use other solutions, for example kue)
    • Push notifications
    • Schema API
    • Webhooks

    Those. simple applications that, for example, only store data or use authorization and sessions, can be transferred without any problems. However, if you use jobs, hooks, send push notifications or use analytics, you will have to do some serious processing of the application.

    Of course, it is likely that in a year the Parse team will expand the number of supported functions of the Parse Server, but hope it’s not worth it.

    As emphasized in the text, it is recommended that you start the migration work as soon as possible .

    You may recall that Parse.com was founded in 2011 (one of the founders is an emigrant from Ukraine Ilya Sukhar), and in 2013 Facebook bought it for $ 85 million. At that time Facebook did not haveserious indicators in the monetization of mobile traffic, and the company was considering various options for development in other directions. The purchase of Parse allowed us to gain a foothold in the niche of paid services for mobile application developers, with an eye to future growth and revenue.
    However, now that Facebook’s quarterly profit has exceeded $ 1 billion (and 80% of this comes from advertising on mobile devices), the company has less desire to engage in third-party projects that are not related to the advertising model. Especially when serious bets were made on WhatsApp and Oculus, which currently do not bring any profit.

    As a result, the forces will be transferred to more promising directions, and Parse will be closed.

    All successful migration!

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