Originally published on strongloop.com
"Ready to build amazing things?" asks the LoopBack 4 homepage before encouraging you to try the open source framework.
"Try LoopBack 4 now."
In this series, I'm going to do exactly that! Join me as I create an API web game using LoopBack 4.
Originally published on strongloop.com
When the LoopBack team released LoopBack 4 GA version last October, they didn't stop to rest on their laurels. The team has been busy enhancing the framework, closing feature parity gaps, and helping community onboard with LoopBack 4.
Since GA, we have been focusing on implementing/enhancing the following major areas:
Originally published on strongloop.com
We landed an outstanding number of code contributions in March, making for a very productive month! We merged 63 PRs in total, and 10 out of them are from the community. Cheers!
The team was able to make good progress of the epics we are focusing on, like LB3 to LB4 migration, adding @loopback/context features, JavaScript experience, the authentication system, and describing model properties to be more flexible. Read more to see the details of our achievements in March.
Originally published on strongloop.com
LoopBack is a popular open source Node.js framework. Its latest version (4) is written in TypeScript, while the older version were written in JavaScript. We chose to write LoopBack 4 to make it more extensible, scalable, and sustainable. TypeScript features made it easy for us to build dependency injection in the framework and leverage it for controllers, models, and other constructs using TypeScript decorators.
We believe that TypeScript is the right move and it will help you and us in the long run. However, some developers are constrained to use plain JavaScript at the moment for various reasons. We didn't want to leave our JavaScript users behind and decided to explore the possibilities of creating a JavaScript interface to LoopBack 4. This blog post is about what we did in that regard and what we will be doing next.
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This past October, we announced LoopBack 4 GA is ready for production use and updated the Long Term Support (LTS) schedule in our LTS page. Due to popular requests, LoopBack 3 now receives an extended long term support with updated timeline as shown in the table below.
| Version | Status | Published | Active LTS Start | Maintenance LTS Start | End-of-life |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LoopBack 4 | Current | Oct 2018 | -- | -- | Apr 2021(minimum) |
| LoopBack 3 | Active LTS | Dec 2016 | Oct 2018 | Dec 2019 (revised) | Dec 2020 (revised) |
| LoopBack 2 | Maintenance LTS | Jul 2014 | Dec 2016 | Oct 2018 | Apr 2019 |
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It feels like 2019 just started, but we are somehow already in March. February flew by, but while the month was short, the list of things the LoopBack team accomplished in the month was the opposite. In February, we tackled authentication and authorization, spikes on migration from LoopBack 3 to LoopBack 4, preparation for events, and others. You can see the February milestone and see the March milestone to see what we are working on next. Read more to see the details of our progress in February.
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The Toronto Cloud Integration Meetup hosted an event on Tuesday, February 5, 2019: "Quickly Build APIs with Existing Services and Data Using LoopBack!" Since not everyone is local, we filmed the meetup so we could share it with our community.
Originally published on strongloop.com
We've provided news, tutorials, and updates on LoopBack for almost as long as the StrongLoop site existed, and continued to do so after IBM acquired StrongLoop in 2015. Recently, IBM created another resource for LoopBack! In addition to accessing news of the open-source Node.js API Framework on this site, you can now also find news, code and more on the official IBM Developer LoopBack page.
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We're one month into the new year! While the team had some time off extending into January, we still managed to work and spike on authentication, migration from LB3, user adoption, extensibility, and documentation. Read more to find out how it all unfolded.
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The Toronto Cloud Integration Meetup is hosting an event on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. The subject is near and dear to our hearts: "Quickly Build APIs with Existing Services and Data Using LoopBack!" If you are in town, we'd love to meet you as we cover this topic.