How do I deploy code directly from github to parse.

Question

Right now I am deploying code to the parse cloud via the command line tool. Is it possible for parse to automatically deploy changes on my github master branch? If so how can I do this?

Answer 1

I don't believe this is possible with Parse alone.

However, you could use Github webhooks and the Parse CLI to configure your own setup with a server (used to deploy). The overview is:

1) Set up Parse CLI on your server so that you can run commands like parse deploy

2) Set up your server to listen for Github webhooks. e.g., http://yoursite.com/githubWebhook listen for POST requests.

3) When your endpoint receives the POST from github (confirmed via the secret included in the Github POST payload), you can run a script that executes the parse deploy command on your server.

Here's an example project in Node.js that shows how to set up the handler for Github webhooks. And here's a SO post describing how to execute commands in node.

Let me know if you need anymore clarification.