We are happy to announce that Backendless 4 has been released out of Beta. It is now the default Backendless environment and all new apps are created in version 4. Now that the Beta is over, we have enabled billing in version 4 and you can choose a pricing plan for your application. This can…

We have had a very successful beta release and received a lot of positive feedback. We would like to thank everyone for your contribution which helped us make the product better than ever. As we are preparing for the GA release of 4.0, there are changes which may affect your apps. Please see the list below: All Github repositories for our…

With the introduction of Deployment Models for business logic (Cloud Code), we also added support for “invocation chains”. This is an ability to chain together multiple server-side event handlers registered to process the same event. Previously, you could inject cloud code into the API invocation flow as shown in the image below: For any API…

We are preparing one of the final Beta builds for Backendless 4. The build should be released early in the week of June 19th. We plan to release the service out of beta shortly after that. One of the important changes in the upcoming service update will be the introduction of deployment models. When the…

One of the new features we will be releasing in the final update of Backendless 4 beta is support for “business logic (Cloud Code) deployment models”. This is a new concept introduced in Backendless 4. A “deployment model” combines individual API event handlers, timers and API services into a single group. The purpose of that…

As we are preparing to launch Backendless 4 out of Beta we need to perform a few maintenance tasks on our servers which will require some downtime. The 4.0 beta cluster will be unavailable on: May 19th, between 2:00am and 6:00am US Central time (UTC-5) The 3.x cluster and development console will not be impacted. We…

Backendless 4 is a powerful platform that can instantly turn your JS code into an API service. Every declared method (unless it is excluded) gets a dedicated API endpoint accessible via REST and native libraries, which Backendless automatically generates for you. As a developer, you can easily specify what the REST route must look like for every…

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We release often and one of the frequent requests we received is the lack of release history. This is changing with Backendless 4, we still plan to release often and now you can see (a very visual) release history for Backendless Cloud and the SDKs at: https://backendless.com/release-history/ Check out the new page and let us…