As all
the developers may already know, the news on Facebook shutting down its most
popular backend platform-Parse in January 2017. Although it was the biggest
shock to entire developers community, the official declaration came with an
inspiration to all the parse users to migrate to best Parse alternative like
MongoDB by almost the end of April (28th April) this year, but they need to get
ready with the self-hosted Parse server by July 2018 and thereby launch a new
app by the end of July 2016.
For
your reference, we have compiled the list of Parse
migration guides with alternative infrastructure. Let’s take a look at
that:
1.Parse official guide from Parse.com
Here’s
a migration guide from Parse.com which comes as an official migration guide
provided by Parse itself, which follows a basic structure of migration. It
helps you to migrate your database from Parse and setting up to parse server.
2. MongoDB
It
guides you to migrate your app database from Parse to MongoDB Cloud Manager and
AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It provides MongoDB Cloud Manager screenshots, in case
you feel like opting for AWS instead of choosing Heroku, that would guide you
to migrate from Parse more easily. There are many blogs which will help you
deploying AWS Elastic Beanstalk and MongoDB for setting up Parse server on AWS.
3. AWS
Push
notification, a significant feature of Parse has become a pain for all parse
users to look for a perfect provider of this feature. Amazon SNS can be the
best option for all those Parse users who wish to continue with ‘push
notification’ feature. You can check those blogs which would help you knowing
the costs and methods of migrating to Amazon SNS from Parse Push.
4. Azure
Azure
also provides you the feature of push notification when you migrate your existing
Parse database to Azure. This infrastructure provides also provides parse
hosting services.
5. mLab
Heroku mLab with mLab is one of the best
infrastructure providers that are suggested by Parse. It provides easy ways, in
step by step through screenshots and codes, to migrate from Parse to the
MongoDB database. Here, you will be also provided with the guide in details to
deploy your existing Parse database to Heroku.
6. Julien Renaux
It is a
complete guide to Parse server migration that helps you migrate your app
database to MongoDB and Digital Ocean. As a developer and/or system admin, you
might know about this cloud hosting provider, Digital Ocean. This guide
provides you unofficial ways to transfer your app database from Parse to
MongoDB and Digital Ocean.
7. Learn App Making
This
gives you guidance on migrating, to Parse server with mLab and Heroku, of your
app database. If you don’t want to consider the guide provided by mLab for migration
and deployment, you can certainly go for this guide that provides you step by
step procedure of migration in details, through 8 screenshots.
8. YouTube
Instead
of reading a lengthy content on how to do Parse migration you can just watch
the tutorial videos on migration guides of Parse database to some good
infrastructure providers like mongoDB, Heroku, AWS, etc.
9.Community on Slack
Parse
community on Slack is an open source for deploying Parse migration.
Migrating
your complete database could be painful but avoid panicking and use any of the
above mentioned Parse migration guides. Happy migrating!
