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Can someone translate this for me? I'm not sure what it would mean to have 'Parse Hosting', 'Cloud Code', etc... I've only recently started to learn nodejs and didn't have any trouble pushing my tutorial made app to Heroku. Is this just an alternative to Heroku that hosts your app?

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It sounds like you've nailed it. This has fewer features, but if you use Parse's data storage (which is their primary product) you probably have improved performance since your data and app are presumably nearby.

It think it's just an easier way for Parse users to do server-side rendering of their single-pag apps. To be honest, I don't even think that's right.

They're coming out with all these interested disparate services, they need to provide a coherent story for how developers can use them together. Maybe a sample app or two.

They posted two sample apps on the article:

AnyBlog: http://www.anyblog.co

Source: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyBlog

AnyMeme: http://www.anymeme.org

Source: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyMeme

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