Parse Server: From Front End to Full Stack

Course details

Welcome to this course where you will learn how to build, use & deploy a backend for your web or mobile application, using the popular javascript based open-source framework, Parse Server.

By the end of this course:-

• You'll have the skills to setup and deploy to production your own instance of Parse using the popular hosting platform called Heroku.
• You'll know how to interact with the database system, how to define tables & columns, insert data and perform queries.
• You will learn how to quickly implement feature like signup, login, forget password and even reset password. 
• As well as how to secure your application and data with the different mechanisms parse makes available to you, including class level permissioning, ACLs and role based permissioning.
• On this course you will also learn how to extend your parse server with custom functionality by writing javascript code which is executed on the server side.
• You'll also have step by step instructions for how to how to release your parse application to production.

How this course is structured

This course follows a strategy of theory & practice. 

It's not just a series of videos of me talking but a combination of lectures & practical exercises designed to cement your knowledge as you go along.

Each section is about 1hr long and split about 60% lectures and 40% a practical exercise for you to complete.

You'll learn:-

• How to setup and run parse server.
• Use the Javascript Client SDK
• Define a Database Schema
• Handle Asynchronous programming with javascript Promises
• Perform Database Queries, 
• Including the new "Live Queries" feature which lets you built real-time apps! For example a chat application!
• How to authenticate & authorise users
• Upload Files
• Implement Geolocation functionality.
• Write Server Side Cloud Code
• Host a basic website alongside your parse sever
• Release it to Production

Who are you?

The course is designed for people who are newer to web development, but you must at the very least have a basic knowledge of javascript. 

This is NOT a course where I recommend you learn javascript as you go along, at the very least you need to be able to:-

• Declare variables
• Create and call functions
• Loop through arrays
• Interact with objects

Perhaps you are a front end developer who's keen to add backend knowledge call themselves a full stack. 

Perhaps you are an entrepreneur who wants to quickly build an MVP without wasting valuable time coding up a backend from scratch. 

Knowledge of git and node would be ideal, but if you don't have any then we have some links in the appendix to the course where you will learn both how to setup these tools and the basics of how to use them.

So feel free to look through the course description, preview any of the lectures and I look forward to seeing you on the inside!