Paraffin API Server

Paraffin api server using the parse-server module on Express.

Read the full Parse Server guide

Installation

For Local Development

• Make sure you have at least Node 4.3. node --version
• Clone this repo and change directory to it.
• npm install
• Install mongo locally using how to install mongodb on Ubuntu and MongoDB Doc
• Run mongo to connect to your database, just to make sure it’s working. Once you see a mongo prompt, exit with Control-D
• Run the api server with npm start
• By default it will use a path of /api for the API routes. It can be changed in .env file
• By defualt you now have a database named “paraffin” that contains your Parse data

Using it

Before using it, you can access a test page to verify if the basic setup is working fine http://localhost:1337/test. Then you can use the REST API, the JavaScript SDK, and any of Parse open-source SDKs:

Example request to a server running locally:

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: APP_ID" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}' \
  http://localhost:1337/api/functions/hello