Parse Dashboard - Why have multiple apps? - dashboard

Question

I followed Ray Wenderlich's excellent, and brand new, tutorial on setting up Parse Server and Parse Dashboard on Heroku.
Migrating to Parse Server for Heroku
When setting up Parse Dashboard, it says to edit the parse-dashboard-config.json file as follows:
{
"apps": [
{
"serverURL": "WHAT_GOES_HERE",
"appId": "shhh",
"masterKey": "shhh",
"javascriptKey": "shhh",
"restKey": "shhh",
"appName": "AppName-Heroku"
},
{
"serverURL": "http://localhost:1337/parse",
"appId": "shhh",
"masterKey": "shhh",
"appName": "AppName-Local"
}
]
}
The question is, why have two apps listed here? When I run the dashboard, my "localhost" app actually points to, and updates, the mlab db on heroku.
The "heroku" app is empty, likely because I don't have the correct serverURL. What is the correct URL for this?

Answer 1

Your two questions:
Why are there 2 apps listed in the config file?
This is because the tutorial demonstrates on how to migrate an existing app from Parse.com to your own Parse Server. The first app configuration points to the app on Parse.com as you can see by the API endpoint https://api.parse.com/1 in the tutorial which you replaced by "what_goes_here". The second app configuration point to your self-hosted Parse Server instance that you have running on your system as you can see by the API endpoint http://localhost:1337/parse.
What is the correct URL for the property serverURL?
The API endpoint https://api.parse.com/1 is the correct URL for your Parse.com hosted app, you must not change this URL, it is the same for every Parse.com customer. The API endpoint for your self-hosted Parse Server can vary depending on your system configuration but usually it is http://localhost:1337/parse.