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Parse-server

parse-community/parse-server

An open-source alternative to Firebase.

Parse Server for Node.js / Express (from the repository)

Stars
21,398
Licence
Apache-2.0
Last push
2026-10-19
Written in
JavaScript
Source on GitHub ↗Project website ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 9 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
8.6.110, 9 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
91% closed
405 open · 4,294 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+4 in 9 days
21,398 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

PermissiveApache-2.0

Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Docker, quoted from Parse-server’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.

$ git clone https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server
$ cd parse-server
$ docker build --tag parse-server .
$ docker run --name my-mongo -d mongo
Read the full instructions in the README ↗

Parse-server against the other open-source options

Every project offered against Firebase, most-starred first.
Parse-server compared with other open-source alternatives
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Supabase111,760ActivePermissive○TypeScript
Pocketbase61,489ActivePermissive○Go
Appwrite57,727ActivePermissiveDockerTypeScript
Parse-server (this page)21,398ActivePermissiveDockerJavaScript
Nhost9,360ActivePermissive○TypeScript
Fusio2,127ActivePermissive○PHP
Kuzzle1,668ActivePermissive○TypeScript
All open-source alternatives to Firebase →

Where this page comes from

  • Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
  • The pairing with Firebase and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
  • Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data