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TJ Rogers
8,758 PointsWill we be receiving a course regarding Parse.com shutting its doors and what to do about it?
I realize this would be an odd sort of add hoc instructional video. But since many of the videos here rely on Parse.com, as do both of my apps (which I and many of my coworkers use for work), I think it would be a very well received addition to the Team Treehouse library. I, for one, would be very appreciative.
Ideally, I would love to see both a short term and long term solution for this. Short term: how to migrate your data and modify code to a comparable back end service. Long term: how to build your own back end, so we're no longer at the mercy of the viability of a third party's business plan.
Thanks!
2 Answers
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsThere are a very large number of courses on Treehouse about how to build your own backend. They have tracks to do it in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, and Java is coming soon. In the meantime, a worthy replacement is Firebase
TJ Rogers
8,758 PointsThank you Michael for your response. I have no doubt that Firebase is an adequate replacement, or that there are any number of other worthy backend substitutes for Parse.com.
But I was referring specifically to a course on HOW to migrate our data from Parse to one of these other backend services. Many (most?) of us subscribe to Team Treehouse because of the explicit step-by-step instructional videos. I, for one, enjoy this service because it takes a a skill that would otherwise be inaccessible to me, and breaks it down into smaller easy to understand and easy to follow steps.
Similarly with building a backend. Do these courses show you how to build a backend with say, JavaScript, and then how to access it with your iOS app that was built with Swift or Objective-C? Again, having these steps spelled out without assuming any previous knowledge or experience with coding is the reason I subscribe to this service.
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsI'm only a student, like yourself, so I don't know anything more about Treehouse's future plans than what's posted on their Roadmap. It doesn't include any Parse migration features right now, but Parse published their own migration guide to help you get their now-open-source server software up and running on your own host.
Treehouse truly is an amazing service that I thoroughly enjoy. They teach a great wealth of information in an incredibly simple way. All of the backend courses I linked to teach you how to build an adequate backend, though they mainly teach you to use it to serve a website. The main way that a server like that would be used for something like an app would be to serve JSON. I know the JavaScript track teaches you how to serve an API with JSON, and I'm pretty sure there's videos for that in Python in the Library, but I don't quite remember for the others. You can learn how to get your app talking to that in the iOS track. Specifically, look at the part where you learn to build a weather app. It's the exact same concept as getting data from Forecast, but instead of querying from Forecast, you talk to your server, instead