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Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – ProfileView

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – ProfileView

Today in part 3 of our Instagram clone App with GraphQL we will get deeper into SwiftUI, building our Profile view.

We will learn to reuse structs in SwiftUI and discuss a few controls: VStack, HStack, GeometryReader, Text, Button, Spacer, Image, Divider among others.

In our previous articles, we learned how to sign up a user and how to log in a user, with the respective UIs in our Instagram clone App. Today we will make it much nicer.

Fast your seat belts and let’s get it going!

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.


Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – Login

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – Login

In our previous post about how to create an Instagram clone app, you learned how to configure everything to have SwiftUI up and running in XCode 11, and created a fully working Sing Up view with GraphQL.

Today we will learn how to create a login view and have the user log out.

We will be needing the project from the previous post, so if you didn’t follow that one, I strongly suggest that you do.

Buckle your seat belts and let’s go!

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.


Back4app Editorial Team

Sashido Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Sashido Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Top 8 Alternatives to Sashido

Sashido can help the developers to create serverless applications quicker with scalable JSON Rest, GraphQL API, Node JS. Even more, it comes with an easy to use object and file storage, CMS. It will never let the developers start their APIs from scratch. No coding is required to manage the services of applications. It offers flexible opportunities to develop cloud functions, , NPM modules, Node JS and other Cloud Jobs in a more effective way. This can let the developers manage their backend services like a professional and can provide an easier way to customize applications to the users.

However, when it comes to the best backend providers then there are various names that can take place as Alternatives to Sashido. To know which are the best Sashido competitors, you must have a look at the following information.


George Batschinski

GraphQL Hosting

GraphQL Hosting

It’s no mystery that every developer wants to make high-quality applications, and if you’re one of them, we are here to assist you in finding a straightforward way to implement and host a GraphQL database. In the past, I’ve been an assiduous REST user, but my concerns about its complexity, over fetching requests and data transfer costs have led me to explore other alternatives.

In addition to some first-tier GraphQL hosting providers such as Back4App, there’s a frequently expanding list of cloud service providers that allow affordable GraphQL hosting.

In this tutorial, I’ll also describe some of the best cloud options to host GraphQL APIs; some providers that are less established but still useful to developers. The tutorial will cover the following hosting options:

  • Parse
  • Back4App
  • Graphcool
  • AWS App Sync
  • Hasura


George Batschinski

GraphQL BaaS – Backend as a Service

GraphQL BaaS – Backend as a Service
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Creating the next big mobile app is an expensive and time-consuming process. Taking your idea to life demands time, energy, and financial resources. I will explore how new technologies like GraphQL will reduce your time to market and speed up your app development process.

This article will explain the benefits of using GraphQL together with Backend as a Service platform, and here is a summary of what you will learn:


Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL

Today we are starting a series of blog posts that will teach you how to use a lot of cool tools to build your own Social Network: an application that resembles Instagram.

We won’t save up on tech and will be using the latest and greatest: Parse, GraphQL, some NodeJS and especially the (yet to be released) latest Apple’s framework SwiftUI. 

This will take a few posts in order to be fully functional, but when we get there, you will realize how simple it can be to get your ideas up and running with very little effort here at Back4app.

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.

So, it seems it is time for…

 


Alex Kusmenkovsky

GraphQL iOS: Using Cloud Functions in a Swift App

GraphQL iOS: Using Cloud Functions in a Swift App

On this article, I showed you how to use GraphQL with NodeJS Cloud Code in Back4app.

And on this guide, I showed you how to use Apollo GraphQL iOS Client with Swift.

Now let’s bring it all together and make lots of complicated operations by producing really easy code. And let’s also have XCode to automatically generate any API code for us even when we change Classes.

Sounds good? So get some coffee and get along!


George Batschinski

Parse Self Hosted vs Back4App

Parse Self Hosted vs Back4App

Parse versus Back4App

Did you know that Parse and Back4app are two very different platforms? Often beginners confuse the two, which leads them to choose the wrong platform. We’re frequently asked by our users, what are the differences between Parse vs. Back4App. To help answer that, we have created the most comprehensive comparison of Back4App vs. Parse (self-hosted version).


Alex Kusmenkovsky

GraphQL and NodeJS integrations using Cloud Code Functions

GraphQL and NodeJS integrations using Cloud Code Functions

GraphQL brings sugar, spice, and everything nice to API developers, but it is basically a query language so you can specify what you are looking for.

What if you need more business intelligence than that in your application?

What if you need some logic along with it?

What if you want that neat NPM Module module along with it?

Well, fasten your seat belts because today I’ll show you something very powerful. And with great powers, comes great… well… great time savings, great possibilities, great lots of good stuff…

 


Alex Kusmenkovsky

GraphQL: is it the REST API “killer”?

GraphQL: is it the REST API “killer”?

After the implementation of the GraphQL support in Parse a lot of people reached me with a few questions, some of them worried about the future of REST API.
Is GraphQL going to “kill” it?
What will happen with my REST API methods? Do I need to rewrite my code?

In this article I will cover those questions, but short answer is: no, you don’t have to worry because GraphQL is not going to “kill” REST API and you also don’t have to worry about rewriting your already working REST API methods.


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