How to Make Professional Apps Faster — Intro

At first, build a professional app looks like a complicated process with a lot of knowledge necessary to deploy a simple application. Develop a good application with a responsible and user-friendly interface and a scalable architecture is a challenge, but there are great tools out there that can help you develop a great app in a simple and trustable way.

Hybrid Technologies for Front-end Development

Many developers still don’t know or don’t think that hybrid app development is something worth a try. Hybrid app dev is a front-end option to develop using web technologies: HTML, CSS and JS, but it can use frameworks like Cordova or Ionic and save time when building cross-platforms Apps(iOS and Android).

Of course, use technologies created for mobile development only is the initial thought. The only problem is that each platform uses a different technology: Java + Android Studio for Android and Xcode + Objective-C for iOS, which means that it is necessary to learn a both technologies to develop a multi-platform app, and getting used to the stack takes time too.

Ionic is a faster alternative, easy to learn and use, that allows the web developer to make something mobile using the same code for all platforms with front-end web technologies. Using frameworks like Bootstrap is recommended for responsive design, buttons, icons and elements that make the mobile version more app-like.

Parse Systems for Back-end Development

Back-end development is something that consumes a lot of time when creating an app. Develop all the database schema, expose this in an API, build an admin portal, authentication and integrate with the front-end is a work that consumes a lot of your App development project effort. A really good alternative for all this work is use a Backend as a Service.

Parse Server it is a popular Backend framework that save a lot of this effort. It's a option for fast back-end development where the developer is able to build and host a backend in a few minutes. Parse Server gather a lot of features and a stack that make easier to scale the App (NodeJS and MongoDB). You can find more details in this article (Scaling Parse Server).

The user does not need to worry about the infrastructure and servers, install new npm modules and complicated logic for push notifications. Parse completely abstract this from user, handling all this and still allowing for adding new features and APIs that eventually become necessary in the project.

The biggest fear of developers when they hear about parsing is not knowing how reliable the service really is. At Back4App we host more than 30000 aps using the Parse Server, some with a complicated server-side logic, showing how it can be reliable. The Parse Server repository is very active receiving many PR(push requests) daily and the community is growing fast.

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