What is Parse?

This is the most used feature on Parse. It helps developers to organize data in a simple and straightforward way. The dashboard looks similar to a spreadsheet and lets you create classes and its properties in a row/column structure, that easy to understand and maintain over time. Also, importing/exporting/filtering data makes data management a breeze.

Basically, anything that can be JSON encodable can be stored: Strings, Numbers, Dates, Arrays, you name it. But also complex types such as Relations and Pointers, which allow us to have related data among classes. Binaries are also supported by the File type, while Poligons and GeoPoint will get geolocation covered.

Parse allows adding new properties over time and deleting deprecated ones. You don't have to prototype or specify anything. Just add or remove a column (a.k.a. property) and Parse will reflect that on all objects and also on the published APIs. If your data models grow over time and get more complex, creating new integrated structures can be easily achieved by graphically operating the models (but of course we support programmatically doing so).

Parse enables you to create dynamic end-to-end GraphQL APIs with little or no coding. Parse goes far from just creating and exposing APIs, and for every Class, you create Parse automatically generates:

• GraphQL Queries and Mutations for it. Both generic and specific.
• The Schemas for the Classes and Methods so you can download and integrate into your projects without effort.
• The documentation for every single Query and Mutation and developers have

For an even more flexible usage, Parse integrates cloud code with GraphQL APIs. By using NodeJS code that will run from the server-side instead of the devices, you have a lot of processing power available to your App. You can potentially save up on battery usage if your application is a Mobile one, as you take the heavy load out of the devices. You can save up on data transfer as well! With GraphQL will you don't have to retrieve a lot of objects. It's possible to calculate everything on the cloud and retrieve only the final result to the device. Smaller payload. Less data plan usage.

As if it wasn't enough, Parse also supports NPM modules, so you can integrate those into your project and save a lot of time and effort. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Parse + GraphQL lets you expand the "Query Language" possibilities to a real "Programming Language" that can add logic to your flow and really make your application reach new horizons.

Parse enables you to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. Very similar to GraphQL, but for REST APIs.

Sending live-queries is another common feature of Parse. Parse live queries enable various users to update the same record at the same time.

Push-notification is an automatic communication sent by an app to a user when the app is not open. Pushes are a great marketing vehicle to assist you to keep in touch with your mobile app users. Parse will allow sending pushes to both Android and iOS devices.

Social login, or third party authentication is another feature of Parse. It simplifies authentication process with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others.

Parse provides automation to email verification. You will be able to verify your users' email addresses and reset passwords.

Parse adapters will allow you to store data and host files with several provides. The list includes AWS, Google Cloud, and Back4App.

Self-host the app and use public clouds like AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud.

Use a Parse hosting specialized services like Back4App

On premises deployment on your private servers.