As you may have heard, Parse announced today that it is shutting down. Several of you have contacted me to ask what to do about this, and the good news is Parse are shutting down in a very graceful way, which will actually make things better for developers using them.
Firstly, they are not shutting down until January 2017, so you will still be able to use all the course exercises in their current form until then. Remember that the idea behind using Parse was not to teach you Parse specifically, but to see how online relational databases work, and you should be able to apply that knowledge to a range of other systems.
Secondly (and this is the really good news), Parse are open-sourcing their code and providing a tool to transfer your Parse databases to a self-hosted alternative. This means that you’ll be able to run the same code that you learn in my courses, but using your own servers. This is a little more complicated to set up, but much more reliable in the long run (as you’re not relying on a separate service that could shut down!).
As soon as I have the information, I will be creating a guide to doing this, showing you how to store Parse’s API on your own server, and using that to store the data for your apps. I will send an announcement when this is ready.
In the meantime, you can continue following along with the courses as they are, safe in the knowledge that if you want to continue using Parse after January 2017, you can do so with all the data stored on your own servers.
Happy coding!
Rob
Thank you Rob. Looking forward to the info!
Happy coding Saturday!
Really looking forward to that guide!
Please I want to know what Can I use instead of parse… because there is no account of me before on parse
Hi Lena, you should follow my guide at http://www.robpercival.co.uk/parse-server-on-heroku/ - that will sort you out!