Can you believe it's been 5 years that LoopBack 4 GA was announced at Node+JS Interactive conference?

After a long hiatus, the LoopBack Blog has gotten a new home! Learn how it came to be and how we managed to modernise blogging stack along the way.

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Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving for those who celebrate it! In November, LoopBack team focused on improving the context module and documentation, as well as bug fixes. The Toronto squad participated in the CASCONxEVOKE conference. Instead of a physical booth, we held a virtual one online. We welcomed @nflaig as the new maintainer of loopback-next.

Read more to know about the highlighted improvements:

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In October, we were excited to see an increasing number of community contributions as people joined the Hacktoberfest event. This month we had pretty balanced improvements in each area of the framework, including context, health check, OpenAPI specification and documentations. Keep reading to learn about the recently added features!

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It's been 6 months since we created the Slack channel for LoopBack community. Thanks to your support, over 500 members had joined and new members are joining almost everyday! Let's take a look at the October edition of the “Community Q&A Monthly Digest”, capturing some of the Q&A in this forum.

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Fall is the season of the harvest. We're glad to see the good progress that we've made in the past 3 months, together with the contributions from the community. In September, there is record high percentage (25.6%) of the merged PRs which are coming from the community. Thank you all!

If you haven't heard of Hacktoberfest happening this month, check out the details in our previous blog on Hacktoberfest. There's still time to join. For those who participated, we appreciated your contributions.

Let's take a look some of the highlights in the last quarter by you and the LoopBack team.

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LoopBack 3 is approaching its end-of-life at the end of the year for community support. For LoopBack 3 users, we hope the migration guide helps you migrate your applications to version 4.

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We bring another month of new features, fixes, and improvements in documentation and developer experience in LoopBack. Make sure to update your compatible projects with lb4 update if you want to update the underlying libraries to their latest versions.

Also, as part of our long-term effort to encourage more community contributions, we are participating in this year’s Hacktoberfest. You can read more about the event and participation details at our Hacktoberfest blogpost.

Originally published on strongloop.com

As part of our long-term effort to encourange more community contributions, LoopBack is going to participate in this year's Hacktoberfest.

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Welcome back to the September edition of the "Community Q&A Monthly Digest", in which we are curating some of the Q&A that we think it might be helpful to you. Thank you for posting your questions and helping your fellow LoopBack users.

The LoopBack Slack community is a platform where LoopBack users are helping each other out. If you haven't joined already, sign up today!

Let's take a look at some of the questions and answers from the community.