Integration of parse-anywhere

[flovilmart]

I've written parse-anywhere a while ago in order to be able to run cloud code locally.
Recently, I've deployed it through Google App Engine managed VM's in production.

The goal of parse-anywhere was to run the exact same code as you would on parse but locally, before deploying.

All the parse provided modules were re-written, or re-wrapped in order to have 100% compatibility.
Integrating it would be a nice to have for the community and avoid any code rewrite.

[gfosco]

Was this using our parse-cloud-express middleware for webhooks?... What would this look like if you added it to parse-server?

[flovilmart]

Yes it is, it spawns a subprocess with forever and injects the proper 'environment' and adds all the submodules to the path. I'd need to update a few lines to use the parse-server flavor of the hooks if required.

[flovilmart]

Added to parse server, instead of calling require(options.cloudCodePath) we'd do something like require("parse-anywhere")(options.cloudCodePath)

[gfosco]

Any metrics on usage of parse-anywhere? I was preferring to force adoption of standard node environment & modules (and making it work) over trying to emulate hosted cloud code.

[flovilmart]

I totally understand. About 200 install last month. Some people use it frequently to debug their express app locally.

[gfosco]

I think parse-anywhere is very cool, and if you'd like to make a branch or a guide on using parse-anywhere with parse-server we can link to it in the Wiki.

[flovilmart]

Ok perfect. All the compatible dependencies are there too, most notably parse-image (based on gm). If you want to put that one in the wiki too :)

[gfosco]

Added to the wiki a link: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/wiki#community-links