Saturday, April 11, 2015

Setting up a parse blog




www.asceansiontest1.parseapp.com
learn to set this page up with parse within 30minutes from
https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyBlog

firstly , what is this?
this is a sample project from parse to show how to host your sites in the parse cloud database
very simple and satisfying to set up and but it is not very usable, recommended for people experimenting with different cloud platforms, not for your everyday blogger.

But,
the instructions are really very minimal and you need some prior knowledge in
1. cloning git projects(obtaining the source files & codes)
2. modifying code
3. installing the command line for parse and using it ,

(Notably, the command line is a strange place if you have not ventured there before, and i took a quite some time to realize how to use it, tip, use cd to navigate , for example if you need to head over to desktop from user, type cd desktop and you'd be there)

I had trouble understanding the instructions and went to google,
then I downloaded this command line tool from this link
 http://blog.parse.com/2012/10/25/parse-command-line-tools-available-for-windows/ and proceeded to run my code from there, basically you just need to first clone the project on git into a folder, then create a web app on parse.com then using the powershell  navigate to the folder that has your clone of the git project then run the commands to authenticate you with the parse server and basically modify some values to customize the site with your name and then just deploy with parse deploy and then finally go back to the web app and set a custom subdomain name and then you will have a site like this up running.

 Full guide available at https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyBlog , makes you learn alot of things such as navigating the command line, how to install & use it, how to use the parse.com to set up services and yeah, good stuff

you may test the original working site at www.asceansiontest1.parseapp.com
it seem to have some sort of word limit for the blog posts , originally i tried to post this article there but the parse server decided to throw me and error so i decided to just paste everything here for now, will try to remove the limit when i have some time on my hands.

note to self there is an admin page at asceansiontest1.parseapp.com/admin/

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