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I always thought of Parse as a service for someone too lazy to setup mongodb. But to be serious, I think that was a nice tool to get ideas up and running for testing purposes. Running in production? Hell no.

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What would you recommend? Im' a new app developer. Debating whether I should begin using Firebase or .. what you just said.

The thing is, there are articles guiding me through using Firebase. I'm not sure there are articles telling me how to setup mongodb and where

I guess it depends on what your aims are. Are you new to mobile development in general and just want to learn how to develop for your preferred platform(iOS, Android etc..)? If thats the case then definitely use Firebase or any other backend as a service for that matter. This will allow you to focus on building your app and not have to worry about implementing an API that provides access to your mongodb database(this would also be a worthwhile exercise). Hope that helped.

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