Parse Cloud Code Structure

Question

I'm using Parse Cloud Code for a social mobile application. I want to make the cloud code scalable but Parse has some rules which I must obey. The structure is like:

cloud/
    main.js
    other.js
    otherfile/
        someother.js
        ...
    ...

only the main.js is a necessity and mobile clients can only call functions inside main.js.

In my clients I'm using MVC as a architecture but I'm not sure what kind of architecture I should use in my cloud code. How should my cloud code architecture be.

Is there a general backend architecture which I can use?

Answer 1

I made a structure myself. But it surely can be improved.

I tried to make my main.js simple. I only added the functions names which will be called outside of cloud code.

// Include all of the modules
var module1 = require('cloud/folder1/file1.js');
var module2 = require('cloud/folder1/file2.js');
var module3 = require('cloud/folder2/file1.js'); 
var backgroundjob = require('cloud/backgroundjob/background.js'); 

Parse.Cloud.job("startBackgroundJob", backgroundjob.startBackgroundJob);
Parse.Cloud.define("do_this_stuff", module1.thisfunction);
Parse.Cloud.define("do_this_stuff2", module1.notthisfunction);
Parse.Cloud.define("do_that_stuff", module2.thatfunction);
Parse.Cloud.define("do_dat_stuff", module3.datfunction);

In file1.js I wrote functions as following.

// Include libraries
var utils = require("cloud/utils/utils.js");
var _ = require('underscore');

// Export Modules
module.exports = {
  thisfunction: function (request, response) {
    addComment(request, response);
  },
  thatfunction: function (request, response) {
    getComment(request, response);
  },
};

function addComment(request, response) {
    // write your code here
    var stuff = utils.callThisFunction(param); // This is the usage of another function in another file
    response.success("Comment added"); // or error but do not forget this
} 

function getComment(request, response) {
    // write your code here
    response.success("Got Comment"); // or error but do not forget this
}

I exported modules as shown because it makes the code more readable. I can just look at the top of the code and see what functions I can use from this file. You may use the docs export style.

exports.addComment = function(request, response) {
    // your code
    response.success();
}