Facebook’s Parse may be shutting down, but that means it can grow bigger than ever
Feb10
You could almost hear developers screaming last week when Facebook announced the death of its Parse service, a backend that made it easy for anyone to quickly spin up the infrastructure needed to build an app. Here’s the thing: it might actually end up being a great thing for the community. When Facebook made the open-source Parse Server available as part of the announcement, almost nobody paid attention in the maelstrom, but it was the most important part of the news: Parse isn’t actually dead. On GitHub, the Parse Server has already racked up more than 5,300 stars and 1,000 forks at…
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