Hosting the Parse Server on Appcelerator's Cloud

Blog Post Here: http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2016/02/your-very-own-mbaas-how-to-move-from-parse-to-appcelerator-arrow/

Hosting the Parse Server on Arrow Cloud is easy. Use this sample app to get started.

Steps to Deploy

1. Migrate your data to a MongoDB database. Parse makes this easy and painless, see here: https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating

2. Clone or download this repo.

3. Install dependencies npm install

4. Open app.js and change the properties of ParseServer object (Mongo URL, appId, etc)

5. Run it locally via appc run and test it out (see below sample cURL requests for testing)

6. When you're all ready, publish it via appc cloud publish. Upon publish you'll get a URL to your app. The only thing left you have to do is change your clients to point to this new URL instead of the old Parse API (Note: you should get a CNAME for your API server).

For more information on using Arrow Cloud like setting up a CNAME, horizontally scaling, etc: http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/Arrow_Cloud

For more information on migrating from Parse, using the Parse server, etc:

https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating

https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

For information on using push notifications and analytics:

http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/Appcelerator_Analytics

http://docs.appcelerator.com/arrowdb/latest/#!/guide/guides

cURL Examples

# Create a new record
curl -X POST \
  -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: <AppIdHere>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"score":234,"playerName":"John Doe","cheatMode":true}' \
  <YourUrlHere>/parse/classes/GameScore

# Get all records
curl -X GET \
  -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: <AppIdHere>" \
  -H "X-Parse-Master-Key: <MasterKeyHere>" \
  <YourUrlHere>/parse/classes/GameScore