I recently began working on a project using Parse. Parse is an awesome data store that abstracts away most of your server logic. However, there are some small gotchas that I ran into when working with it. The first is the use of TestObject. TestObject is the first thing you create with a parse tutorial. Unfortunately I like to roll with working code and keep building. However, with Parse this can be an issue. Once you’ve created TestObjects you can’t read them out of your data store. This can be a pain but as long as you just create a new type of object you should be fine. The second thing was with access controls in the data store. I built two clients for my parse backend one being for iOS and the other being for the web using the javascript sdk. Unfortunately I was unable to read objects from the database until I authenticated as a user. I should’ve realized it sooner, but for some reason it didn’t strike me until I read the documentation. Overall, Parse is a great way to at the very least quickly prototype an idea without having to set up an external API to store your data later. They have a slick interface, and fairly good documentation. With 1 million monthly API requests on the free tier they can’t be beat. 5/5 Highly recommend.
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