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by barbecue_sauce 2279 days ago
I was exposed to Parse, but was it ever widely used/popular?
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gfosco 2279 days ago
It's still actively developed. https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server
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asciimike 2279 days ago
Yes, it was a fairly popular BaaS offering during 2014-2016

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=parse-platfor...

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gman83 2279 days ago
It was definitely popular. It used to be the go to solution on r/AndroidDev for people wanting a simple backend solution without having much experience. Everyone switched to Google Firebase after Facebook shut it down.
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