Check out this module for Parse.Cloud

[jcguarinpenaranda]

Hello,

First I want to thank all the community for being so active, and the people who are working so we can have new versions of parse-server.

I have been working with parse-server some time after Parse announced they were not going to continue, and I want to share with you a module I created for being able to manage more easily the Cloud Code. It is called ParseCloudClass and you can see it here

The module

With parse-cloud-class module you can easily:

• Define minimum values for keys on your classes
• Define default values
• Define required keys
• Use addons to easily extend the funcionality of your app
• Create new addons and share them with the community
• Customize the default behaviour to your own needs

The usage is very simple, like this:

// cloud/main.js
// with typescript or ES6
import { ParseCloudClass } from 'parse-cloud-class';

const myConfig = new ParseCloudClass({
  // new items will not be created if they have no 'name' set
  requiredKeys: ['name']
  defaultValues: {
    // all new items will have by default active: true
    active: true,
    // by default, timesShared will be 0
    timesShared: 0,
  },
  minimumValues: {
    // timesShared cannot go below 0
    timesShared: 0,
  }
});

// Configure your class to use the configuration
ParseCloudClass.configureClass(Parse, 'MyClass', myConfig);

A word on the addons

I think being able to use other community-made scripts for parse-server would be something very nice to have, and would continue to make our life easier as developers.

In this way, using ParseCloudClass I think we could have in the future some modules to connect the data with some Analytics service like Mixpanel, or with other services such as Algolia; or even having a replication plugin that syncs the data with DynamoDB or any other database.

The only thing needed, would be that the new module implements afterSave or afterDelete (there are more functions)

Note

I am posting this here because I think somebody else would like to easily configure the Parse Cloud classes with this basic functionality, or extend it in the future.

[flovilmart]

That’s a Neat little project you got here! I was thinking about discovery of such ‘addons’ / community packages, and that would be nice if published as: parse-server-addon-YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME

what do you think?

[jcguarinpenaranda]

Very nice!

Right now it is published as parse-cloud-class, but I can move it to parse-server-addon-cloud-class

[jcguarinpenaranda]

Now it is changed, and available in npm as parse-server-addon-cloud-class. I will be working on other addon for Algolia

[flovilmart]

Awesome! That will probably help discovery! I’ll check with others if we wanna move adapters to the same pattern parse-server-adapter-*.

[jcguarinpenaranda]

As promised, I did the Algolia addon I was talking about:
https://github.com/owsas/parse-server-addon-cloud-algolia

It is available in npm as parse-server-addon-cloud-class-algolia :) and keeps in sync the data between Algolia and the database you use in parse-server

[flovilmart]

Pretty cool! I’ll make a PR on the README, so other users know about this new convention for community packages discovery.

[jcguarinpenaranda]

Can you please post these repos to parse-server-modules ?

[flovilmart]

What do you mean by that?

[jcguarinpenaranda]

I see that in that account or repository you have linked several adapters for parse-server. Community made addons can appear there?

[flovilmart]

Those are not linked. This organization was created when Parse-server was still under facebook’s management and for official adapters/reference implementations. Now, while your addons are quite useful in certain scenarios, I don’t believe they should live under this organization as it would form some kind of endorsement / official support. We have our hands pretty busy already, and i was actually thinking moving most of the official adapters back to parse-Community instead of parse-server-modules.

[jcguarinpenaranda]

Ohh I understand, I thought it was a list of repositories that would work with parse-server, made by the community. Thank you! 2017-11-05 9:24 GMT-05:00 Florent Vilmart <notifications@github.com>:

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Those are not linked. This organization was created when Parse-server was still under facebook’s management and for official adapters/reference implementations. Now, while your addons are quite useful in certain scenarios, I don’t believe they should live under this organization as it would form some kind of endorsement / official support. We have our hands pretty busy already, and i was actually thinking moving most of the official adapters back to parse-Community instead of parse-server-modules. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4317 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AG3gNUe3MdvsjU0Hf5jTsqdBg47Icbm5ks5szcUagaJpZM4QRxvm> .

[tejpratap46]

We can do a Awesome Parse Server list.