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Appery has made life really easy for basic app development. However, when non-techies like me want to graduate to the next level and start doing a little server side coding, etc. we hit a roadblock. For example, I want to use Parse for it's Cloud Code and some offline capabilities that it offers. But after Appery, manual coding becomes very difficult (you guys make it a breeze).

It would be great if Appery can provide more tutorials on how to leverage Parse capabilities or may be even offer a tighter integration with Parse by optionally including the SDK in the Appery project. I would really help newbies like me to graduate to the next level.

Cheers,
Rahul.

Any particular feature you need with with? In general, using Parse API is pretty simple when building an app in Appery.io. Define a service (Parse has two keys that you need to set) and then use the service. Creating a service is the same -- no matter when API you use so you can see how to do it in any of our tutorial: http://docs.appery.i/tutorials

I have tried Parse and basic stuff works fine. My suggestion was on following points:

1. Server side coding - I just saw that Appery is introducing Cloud Code this month, which will be a huge improvement towards developing end-to-end apps. As of now, I'm not aware of any simple for a newbie like me to use server side code. I just hope Appery Cloud Code is as simple as the mobile app development tools.

2. From what I've read, the Parse SDK offers methods like saveEventually which handles app functioning in offline mode. I haven't seen a detailed use case of offline operation using Appery. That's why I suggested that pre-intergrating Parse SDK might help add such functionality.
   If there are tutorials for these, please point me because I haven't found them.

   Cheers,
   Rahul.

We will be publishing docs on Appery.io Service Code feature when it's available in late June.

As for SDKs -- we don't have an example using that particular function from Parse but you can easily include any JavaScript/SDK in Appery.io platform. As for how to use it -- you would need to read the Parse docs.