How to Deploy your HTML5 App on StackMob (Part 1)

My understanding of it is Heroku for mobile, but I haven't played with it much so far. It's on my list of services to mess around with one afternoon.

StackMob provides a platform for mobile apps which includes a backend/datastore that's running for you in the cloud running behind a REST API. Push messaging is also available, user authentication.. The things you build for your backend infrastructure - except that it's already built. Just start using the StackMob SDKs to help you take advantage of the services.

This particular component is part of our HTML5 offering - in particular how you would host your HTML5 files on StackMob via GitHub. We provide a JS SDK that enables your web app to access StackMob (datastore, push, etc). To accomplish that, and to make sure that any browser can support it (and not depend on implementation of CORS - cross origin - headers), we provide hosting for your web apps so that there's no potential of cross-domain rejections. The aim for that is to support as broad an audience for your app as possible - not just the latest browsers that support CORS. It also helps answers security concerns we had, as we didn't want your OAuth keys floating out there in your JS source.

Just a quick snippet of what we do in programmatic terms. The following code via the StackMob JS SDK saves your user object to StackMob servers.

var user = new Stackmob.User({ username: 'Chuck Norris', password: 'my fists', age: 2000, weaponofchoice: 'nunchucks' }); user.create({ success: function(model) { /* saved! */ } } ); //this fires of AJAX that saves your user

We'll need to do a better job of encapsulating that in a digestable format for news consumption, but I do hope that helps a bit!