Parse is an excellent mBaaS developed by Parse Inc. (acquired by Facebook) then abandoned/Open Sourced. It has an active community and can help you build your mobile apps very fast.

Parse has SDKs for native android, javascript/react native and is very straightforward to integrate into your app.

If you would like to avoid the hassle of setting up and maintaing your own infrastructure, I recommend using back4app.com which provides good support for parse and offer a fair free tier service:
* Ideal for developing, learning and prototyping * No credit card required10k Requests * 250 MB Database * 1 GB Transfer * 1 GB Storage

In my case, I always prefer maintaining my own servers and infrastructure. This tutorial can be automated by using ansible. but for now we will do the installation manually. Read more…