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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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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.
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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!
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We can't believe that it is already August! Let's check out the work we did in July:
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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:
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The completion of the migration epic would be the biggest news in May. Now LoopBack 3 users can find the migration guide here. Meanwhile, we have feature contributions and bug fixes happened across all the functional areas.
There are more than 20 community PRs merged in May and we really appreciate every community member's help. We set up community calls every four weeks to keep in touch with our maintainers. See the latest schedule and recording in this story.
Keep reading to learn about what happened in May.
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In April, we focused mostly on completing migration activities, like the migration guide and other related tasks like running existing tests in a LoopBack 3 application after composing it within a LoopBack 4 application. But, that didn't stop us from exploring and adding some cool features.
We now have a new Express package, which enables modeling Express middleware functions as an interceptor chain. Also it is possible now to break a complex application into much smaller components and wire them in a main application. You can find more details on thsese below in Exploring new territories.
Also our community has published many LoopBack 4 extensions in NPM. Many of these extensions are addressing a variety of usecases like pub-sub messaging, mqtt, graphql, rate-limiting, authentication, logging, AWS cloud integration, etc. The extensibility of LoopBack in real time use cases are even surprising us and the possibilities seems to be endless.
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The whole world has been through a lot in the past month. The LoopBack team hopes that everyone stays safe and gets through this together.
Let's check out the work we did in March:
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The February in a leap year is quite special and we hope everyone has some memorable stories from that extra day! In the past month, LoopBack team continued to focus on the migration guide epic. In the meantime, we were able to contribute significant PRs across all the functional areas. We are really glad to see the increasing engagement from community members, we appreciate all your code reviews and contributions. Last but not least, we published new major releases for @loopback/* modules as as we dropped Node.js 8 support and introduced a few other breaking changes.
Keep reading to learn about what happened in February!