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And nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.
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Parse was an API as a service. The idea being that you don't need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.

That said, I never used it, I saw it appear, had a look, decided what it offered was too rudimentary to be scalable, and moved on.

That said, as an open source offering, it's quite interesting.

This post answers the basic question, what is parse:

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/what-is-parse-server/

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Huh. Yeah, I dove around a bit, browsed the wiki, etc, and so far all I've seen is the equivalent of "an open source version of the Parse backend". No description anywhere that I can see about what it does or why you should care (unless you're already on Parse, of course).

IIRC the Parse homepage used to have this, but ever since the shutdown notice (so, for the past year) the homepage has largely been useless.

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nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse

This is a major failing of a lot of open-source projects and a lot of real companies as well. Fortunately Wikipedia often provides some background. It's my go-to place whenever I'm confronted with some un-navigable home page filled with hipster jargon about how a company wants to "empower" me with "cloud" "solutions".

Here's a brief history of Parse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_(company)

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I'd assume the main goal of the open-source Parse Server is to provide some support for previous users of Parse? Who would already know what Parse does.

Attracting new users unfamiliar with the technology seems at best secondary ( and possibly, unwelcome) to the Parse Server community now.

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Parse.com was a BaaS(backend as a Service) acquired by Facebook in 2013. Using the platform was possible to build and host most of all your app backend(database, legacy code, integrations, Push notifications, send emails, social login, ...) and to integrate with your app front-end using the SDKs or even using a REST API. Parse Server is the open source version of Parse.com launched after the Parse shutdown announcement.
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