Mobile devices have had a big impact on how businesses work. Mobile enterprise apps let businesses use the devices people already have to be more efficient and productive.

The rise of smartphones has changed the way consumers shop. They no longer need to visit brick-and-mortar stores to purchase goods or services. Instead they can browse through their phones, pick out items from their favorite retailers, and complete transactions without leaving home.

In a previous article (How to Save an Object with All the Children in a Single Call to Server), we examined how to simply save an object model. However, Backendless custom services give us much more flexibility when it comes to saving objects.

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…

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…

Adding custom server-side logic is one of the most powerful features of Backendless. We are happy to announce that JavaScript with Node.js has been added to the family of server-side languages supported by Backendless. Starting today developers can build custom API services, API event handlers, and timers using JavaScript. See the getting started guide and start building…

There are a lot of scenarios when custom business logic on the server-side may need to connect to an external host. Whether it is a service call to a third-party service or a retrieving data from a proprietary system, the code must establish a connection to an external host. Up until now if you tried…

The goal of this post is to let you quickly become familiar with Backendless custom business logic feature. At the end of the instructions provided below, you will have a Backendless application with a custom API event handler published into production – that is running on our servers. Using Code Generator Login to Backendless console…