For anyone developing business logic (Cloud Code) in JavaScript, we have put together some suggestions for troubleshooting your deployment. The page is added to the product documentation. One of the new features described in the doc is the ability to redirect console.log messages to Backendless logging. Once your JS code is deployed to production, messages…
One of the goals we have at Backendless is to make the platform uniformly available for different types of client technologies. The platform is truly cross-platform and it is a matter of time/effort to make it available to a new client environment. Since we already have a super-powerful SDK for JavaScript, creating a bridging technology for…
If you have been waiting for Angular 2 support in Backendless, the wait is over. We have finished the integration of the Backendless SDK for JS and now it is available for TypeScript. An important side effect of this integration is support for the Angular 2 framework. The integration enables complete support of all Backendless APIs from…
We just pushed a new release to our production servers. The release includes multiple new features and a ton of improvements. Below is a summary of what went into the release. There will be a blog post with a video providing an in-depth review of each new feature: Pricing update– our free plannow includes more…
Tizen is an open source platform residing within the Linux Foundation. It includes an operating system which can run smartphones, tablets, netbooks, onboard devices in smart cars as well as smart TVs. We wanted to see what it would take to integrate a Tizen app with Backendless because the benefits of such integration would be huge….
In this write-up, we review a JavaScript application we recently ported to Backendless. The application is an “editable invoice” which automatically saves its data including invoice line items, customer address, your own address, invoice number, etc. It is a good example demonstrating how to work with “related persistent data”, which means you can save a…
The Backendless API for JavaScript can be used not only from the browser-based JavaScript applications but also from a Node.js program. Using the API is very straight-forward. The instructions below describe the steps for setting up and running a basic Node.js example with Backendless. The example demonstrates registering a user with your Backendless application. It…
Developing JavaScript applications with a backend-as-a-service platform like Backendless significantly simplifies and speeds up the development process. With the latest release of our SDK for JavaScript, this equally applies to both mobile and browser-based apps as well as Node.js applications. The video below reviews the available APIs and demonstrates sample applications showing the simplicity, ease-of-use…
We have just updated our JavaScript library enabling API access to the Backendless services. The update includes support for Node.js applications as well as several bug fixes. The SDK is available for download in the downloads section of the website. Additionally, if you develop JS applications, you can always import the latest version of the…