Lean Mobile App Development

Queries

The data consumption relies on a few direct queries, but for the more complex requirements, cloud code solutions have been used. These cloud code solutions are JavaScript based and are closely related to the REST API functionality that is available with Parse Server.

For the sake of simplicity it is hosted at Back4App, but there is little that will prevent us hosting one or multiple Parse Servers in the future. Of course, in that case we need to handle push notifications, balancing and scaling, and other things too, but you get the picture. It allows us to be scalable if we need to scale right away.

When you look at the app's Swift code, you will notice that there are a number of methods defined for the client. They are available ...