Best strategy will be not relying on another hosted BaaS solution. Just because of this we have created an API generation tool called API Plug that can benefit mobile and backend developers. You can export MongoDB from Parse right now. After that you can generate & download your own REST API source code in any language you need in minutes from https://apiplug.com Then you could deploy on your own server and have the full control of your backend.

We are building API's for our mobile applications and prefer keeping API version in url such as "app.com/v1/endpoint". This way we could keep running old applications(not updated by user) without any issue and pushing updates to appstores with new API url for new installs. We are also following this method in our new API generation tool API Plug too. Our users could generate their API versions on fly and download all versions such as api/v1, api/v2 and upload to their servers.

I have came here from another thread . I have almost same feelings with Jan Vladimir. We were also working as a software house and while building our mobile apps or customers apps we were starting from creating a no backend app in iOS or Android just for testing the design. Then if we need a working prototype we were cloning our rest-api backend that we were using on another project and customising it with some shell scripts that we have prepared. This was being very helpful for creating MVP. After that we want to solve cloning backend issue not only for us and created API Plug for this. We are still improving it but right now you could select your existing MongoDB or MySQL datasource and it automatically generates REST-API source codes in NodeJS or PHP/Laravel in 5 minutes. Also if you want it could output source as Docker containers too. You can try from https://apiplug.com

Hi, I have no experience on SailsJS but if you want to stay on MEAN stack you could try our new tool called API Plug . With API Plug you could link your MongoDB and automatically generate your NodeJS Rest-API in 5 minutes with a few clicks. Also it allows you to use MySQL as datasource and PHP/Laravel output too but for your MEAN stack MongoDB and NodeJS API will be sufficient. You can try it for free from https://apiplug.com