During the creation process of an application, in today's dynamic living and working environments, connecting your mobile application to a backend will facilitate the process of data storage and connection of data to companion web applications, which will provide users with enhanced capabilities and a satisfactory experience.

Introducing a backend into your project can be facilitated through the use of the Parse.com REST API. Parse offers an easy-to-use, straightforward, and scalable platform, which can be implemented within an application based on the Ionic framework.

As we go through this chapter, we will start off by setting up a Parse backend and an Ionic project. After this, we will create a connection between them to achieve our desired effect.