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by holgersindbaek 4954 days ago
Parse sounds awesome. I'm learning iOS development atm... I definitely need to look into this.

If you are to integrate it with a web app (like Instagram also is a webapp now), would you still use parse then? How would that work out?
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HectorRamos 4954 days ago
You can use the JavaScript SDK[1] to build a webapp companion quite easily. This is how we implemented the mobile webapp version of our Anypic app[2].

Parse also has a REST API[3] which can be used from your web application backend of choice.

[1]: https://parse.com/docs/js_guide [2]: https://anypic.org [3]: https://parse.com/docs/rest

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holgersindbaek 4953 days ago
Nice. Sounds like the REST way would be best, doesn't it? If you are using Rails at least.
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adelevie 4953 days ago
Check out https://github.com/adelevie/parse-ruby-client and https://github.com/adelevie/parse_resource.

Also, with properly-configured ACLs, you should be fine using the JS SDK client-side with a Rails backend.

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