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- Facebook’s Parse may be shutting down, but that means it can grow bigger than ever
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
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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