I’m happy to announce that Scoold Pro is now integrated with Microsoft Teams! Everyone who owns an active Scoold Pro license will get the new feature in the next release. All instances running on Scoold Cloud will also be updated and will benefit from the new integration. This was a highly-requested feature and it honestly took more time than I anticipated but the end result is great. Teams is the third enterprise chat application which gets an offical Scoold integration, after Slack and Mattermost. All three support a similar feature set.
Alex B.
Status update - Para goes global, pricing changes
Our backend-as-a-service (BaaS) Para continued to grow over the past few months and now it’s hosting over 450 active apps. We have about 10 paid customers from different parts of the globe - USA, Japan, Europe. Previously, the hosted Para service was available from a single AWS region - Ireland, EU. This meant that clients connecting from another continent would experience high latency for all requests to the backend, which would make Para applications feel slow. It was time to address this problem.
Announcing Scoold Cloud
We’re happy to announce the availability of Scoold Cloud - the official hosting for Scoold Pro. We’ve been working on it for the past few months and we can’t wait for you to try it out. Now you can easily deploy a Scoold Pro server in the cloud. Scaling and upgrades are handled by us, leaving you to focus on your community. When used in combination with our serverless backend, Para, Scoold Cloud offers a simple and efficient solution for knowledge sharing within your organization, with zero maintainance.
Status update - Python client, Scoold API, integrations and more
Over the past year or so we’ve added a number of new features and integrations to Scoold and Para. In particular, Scoold has received hundreds of bug fixes and dozens of pull requests on GitHub. The community has been quite active with feature requests and suggestions. We’re also happy to report that profits from Scoold Pro are increasing and we’re proud to have several large clients, like Cisco, IBM and DBS Bank, who have successfully deployed it in production.
Building a full stack application from scratch with React
Note: This article is a clone of another one written for Angular.
In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple single-page application with React (v16 and above). This is intended
for developers unfamiliar with the new framework or having some experience with React. First of all, I got
Visual Studio Code installed on my machine and it’s running on Linux. I chose VS Code because we’ll be working with
JavaScript and JSX and it has great support for those, but you can code in your favourite IDE as well.
The code project for this article was generated with create-react-app, a scaffolding tool for React.
You’ll also need to have Git, Node.js and npm installed.
Webhooks implemented in Para and Scoold
With the release of Para 1.32.0 we’ve introduced support for webhooks for all apps. This feature is available now
on ParaIO.com as well. This is very good news for everyone who wants to integrate Para with
external services. It makes Para even more flexible and enables you to have near real-time notifications for events
like create, update and delete for any object type you choose.
Status update - containers, Java 11 and more
Over the past couple of months we’ve been busy maintaining Para and Scoold and a few patches have been released. The changes are minor and are mostly related to dependency upgrades. A few minor bugs have been fixed as well. Scoold has received some much welcome pull requests with translations from our awesome contributors. It is now available in 12 different languages!
Top 5 open source Q&A platforms for 2021
I’ve assembled a list of the top open source Q&A platforms that are currently available. The list contains only projects which are in active development and have a working demo site. There are a few similar blog posts out there but they’re quite outdated. Most of the projects listed below are inspired by Stack Overflow which is in fact the most popular community for questions and answers related to programming. Please, bear in mind that the list is not ordered in any way.
Announcing Scoold Pro
We are happy to announce the availability of Scoold Pro! We’ve added a number of useful features to it and made it easier for integration with your existing infrastructure. Scoold Pro fits well inside an enterprise environment and can also be hosted on your company’s intranet. SAML authentication allows for a faster onboarding and unlimited spaces give you the freedom to assign a separate space to each one of your teams within your organization.
Introducing Scoold - an open source Q&A platform
Have you ever wanted to have a Q&A section on your website with the functionality of Stack Overflow? Well, this one is for you! Scoold is a cloud-ready Stack Overflow clone, powered by our Para backend. It’s a real-world application, showcasing the Para technology and how it can be utilized to get a project off the ground quickly. Scoold is a lightweight (~4000 LOC) web application written in Java – it runs great on the smallest Heroku dyno and doesn’t require a database.