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· 5 min read
Janny Hou

Originally published on strongloop.com

Our focus in August is the documentation restructure. The layout of several main sections are reorganized for easier navigation. Another significant improvement is about the request handling. More flexible approaches of adding LoopBack style middleware and express middleware are introduced in @loopback/rest.

We would like to appreciate Agnes Lin's great contributions during her internship. There has been so much fun and pleasure working with her! She will be continue helping us part time. Good luck with your school.

Keep reading to learn about the improved documentation and recently added features!

· 6 min read
Raymond Feng
Miroslav Bajtoš
Diana Lau

Originally published on strongloop.com

Almost two years ago, LoopBack 4 was released and announced at Node+JS Interactive event. Thanks to your support, we now have over 110k downloads per month on npmjs.com and over 3000 GitHub stars on the loopback-next repo. Recently, we created the LoopBack Slack community to provide a platform for the community and us helping each other. We are glad to see an increasing engagement in that front as well!

With the core of the framework maturing and contributions shifting to the LoopBack extensions, we think LoopBack has entered a new stage and it's time to revisit our approach to planning work, delivering features, fixing bugs, and improving documentation.

· 2 min read
Diana Lau

Originally published on strongloop.com

Since the beginning of the LoopBack project, we have been using the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) as the contribution method. Contributors need to sign each CLA for each LoopBack repository they're contributing. To simplify the contribution process and encourage community contributions, we are planning to gradually switch to use Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as the contribution method.

· 8 min read
Agnes Lin

Originally published on strongloop.com

Over the recent months, this global pandemic has affected our lives in different ways; we hope you all stay safe during these difficult times. The LoopBack team has adapted to new ways of working, including virtually and in new settings. Even though it could be challenging sometimes, we are glad that we were able to complete most of our Q2 plan. Thanks to all the support from the team and the community!

Here's a brief look at the Q2 summary:

· 8 min read
Yaapa Hage
Miroslav Bajtoš

Originally published on strongloop.com

Documentation restructuring, TypeORM support, and HasManyThrough were the three main accomplishments in the month of June. Based on the community feedback, documentation improvement remains our number one priority in the coming month. Besides, while welcoming Nathan Chen join as a maintainer of the strong-globalize repo, we said farewell to Deepak.

Here is what we did in the month June: