Is devRant coded in Objective-C or Swift? Is the backend through Parse, Firebase, etc.? It seems to be a smooth app.

I feel like this has been answered a couple times, might be time to sticky something to the sidebar. I don't remember what the answer was but I'm sure someone who does will be in soon to answer.

I did want to say that if you are thinking of using Parse, don't they are closing down the beginning of next year.

@ejwill thanks for the heads up. I'm waiting on the new Macbook Pro to come out so I can dive into Swift development. Wanted to know what everyone uses for a backend.

@iKAANIK I like firebase especially with the new updates out of Google I/O

We use Titanium Appcelerator for the iOS and Android app. The backend is a custom API written in PHP 7 using the Slim framework and we use Neo4j as our primary datastore and ElasticSearch for search stuff.

nice @dfox ! Im busy fleshing out our new api and centralising our core product from the clients front end. maybe i should look into PHP7. seems to be living up to all its glory?!

@dfox so this is coded in Javascript via Titanium Appcelerator?

@wesleycharles I love PHP 7 and I definitely recommend it. I think the out of the box scalability is excellent and there's some nice new stuff like strict typing if you want it. PHP has its flaws but IMO if you start off with a nice framework like Slim it makes it really easy to keep the codebase pretty nice.

@iKAANIK correct, pretty much all JavaScript aside from slight modifications to a few modules