7 posts tagged with "Quarterly update"

Originally published on strongloop.com

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.

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:

• Migration Guide
• Enhancing Documentation
• Leveraging Authentication System
• APIC/LB4 Integration
• Other Highlights
• Building LoopBack Community

Originally published on strongloop.com

The past few weeks have been challenging for many of us. While this pandemic situation affected our lives in different ways, we hope you all stay safe.

In Q1, we continued to make good progress in the following areas:

• Migration guide
• Migration Tooling and Examples
• From Model Definitions to REST APIs
• Newly added examples
• Newly added extensions
• Enhancements in LoopBack core and OpenAPI areas
• Rework of shopping example
• Refreshed look for LoopBack documentation

Let's take a closer look.

Originally published on strongloop.com

Happy New Year! The number of LoopBack 4 downloads in 2019 increased more than double than that in 2018. Thank you for your continuous support in using and contributing to LoopBack. We cannot do this alone and we really appreciate all the contributions from the community. In December, we were happy to have 3 community members join us as maintainers: @derdeka, dougal83 and achrinza!

As year 2020 commences, let us summarize our development activities in the last quarter of 2019.

• Migration Guide: created the outline for general runtime migration and added details on migrating Express middleware and model relations.
• Going cloud native: added extensions for observability and deployment documentation
• Authentication and authorization: enhanced the documentation and enabled token based authentication in API Explorer
• Inclusion of Related Models: completed MVP and ability to allow custom scope.
• Partition Key with Cloudant and CouchDB: added support for partitioned database
• Creating REST API from Model Classes: added the ability to generate controller from Model and Repository classes

Originally published on strongloop.com

For the past few months, the LoopBack team has been busy improving the framework. Aside from implementation, we also did some investigation to plan out road map for the incoming new features. Here are our main focuses in last quarter:

• Authentication: released @loopback/authentication@3.x version.
• Authorization: experimental feature which provides basic support for authorization.
• Inclusion of Related Models: query data over relations with inclusionResolver.
• Creating REST API from Model Classes: the proposed design to allow users create REST API with less code.
• Importing LoopBack 3 Models: migrate your LB3 applications to LB4 with command lb4 import-lb3-models.

We have a monthly blog reviewing what we've done in each milestone. To stay tuned, don't forget to follow us on Twitter @StrongLoop.

Let's take a closer look at each of the epic.

Originally published on strongloop.com

For the past few months, we have been focusing on the following stories:

• Authentication: released a new @loopback/authentication 2.0 version.
• Authorization: ability to add authorization through interceptors.
• Inclusion of related models: set up foundation in repository-json-schema package.
• Architectural improvements: introduction of lifecycle observers and interceptors.
• Migration: allows you to migrate incrementally.
• Internal tooling and CI: Support Node.js 12, reduce build time, etc.
• New Look and Feel on LoopBack Web Site: published a new look on the loopback.io web site.

We have a monthly blog reviewing what we've done in each milestone. To stay tuned, don't forget to follow us on Twitter @StrongLoop.

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:

• Authentication
• Model relations
• Migration
• Extensibility