Heroku Cloud Code Access

[listingboat]

I have an app that is a node/express app written on top of cloud code. It is deployed and functional on Heroku. However, we get random performance issues. I suspect this is due to the fact that the cloud code is competing with external web requests to the same URL.

In our config, the serverURL is set to https://.herokuapp.com. Which mean the Parse cloud code calls to parse are going out over the internet instead of directly to localhost.

Is there a serverURL config that would work for localhost on Heroku. My many attempts have failed.

[flovilmart]

try localhost:8080 or whatever port is heroku listening on. Otherwise, you can try to use PARSE_SERVER_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_DIRECT_ACCESS=1 as an environment variable.

This removes the HTTP roundtrips with CloudCode <-> parse-server.

Before using that, you have to make sure that your cloudCode doesn't contain Parse.Cloud.useMasterKey() and Parse.User.current()

[listingboat]

I am aware of the experimental direct access. I understand it is slated for version 3.x is that correct?

[flovilmart]

it's available right now, protected by the env variable. It's scheduled for a later version.

[woodardj]

Sorry for jumping on an old thread — to clarify, the reason not to use "useMasterKey" with PARSE_SERVER_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_DIRECT_ACCESS is because it's a security risk? Is that accurate?