Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a new ...

Parse was once the poster child for mobile back end as a service (MBaaS), and despite its recent acquisition by Facebook, it is still a viable, low-friction MBaaS for limited-volume consumer apps. On ...

Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js was compromised, and any software using ...

You’re not imagining things: Some JavaScript web apps are quite slow, owing to egregiously high startup, parsing, and data transfer overhead. According to ...