Blog posts in 'LoopBack' category
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| Simplify Your Database Migrations Using LoopBack 4
Dec 12, 2018
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As applications evolve and developers add new features, the structure of the backing database evolves as well. In LoopBack 3, we provided JavaScript API for automatic migration of database schemas. Recently, we improved LoopBack 4 to leverage thes... More |
| LoopBack 4 November 2018 Milestone Update
Dec 5, 2018
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With winter approaching, daylight hours have been decreasing, but the LoopBack team’s productivity has not. After we published the General Availability (GA) release, the team started to focus on user adoption and fixing up documentation to accomod... More |
| The Journey to Extensible Request Body Parsing for LoopBack 4
Dec 4, 2018
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LoopBack 4 makes it easy for developers to implement business logic behind REST APIs as controller classes in TypeScript and expose them as HTTP endpoints by decorating such classes and their members including methods and parameters. The framework... More |
| How We Built a Self-hosted REST API Explorer in LoopBack 4
Nov 28, 2018
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The LoopBack team has always believed it’s important to provide great user experience not only to REST API creators, but also to developers consuming those APIs. API Explorer is one of tools making a big difference, as it can render a live documen... More |
| Best Practices for LoopBack 4
Nov 21, 2018
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The LoopBack framework is a powerful and flexible tool that can be used in many different ways. Some of these ways lead to better results while others can create headaches later in the project lifecycle. To make it easy for LoopBack users to do th... More |
| Deploying LoopBack 4 applications to IBM Cloud
Nov 14, 2018
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LoopBack 4 applications can now run on IBM Cloud with some minimal code changes and configurations. We have created a tutorial to help you get started. Go through it if you want to get experience deploying your application on IBM Cloud’s Cloud Fou... More |
| LoopBack 4 October 2018 Milestone Update
Nov 8, 2018
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As the fall season kicked into full gear, the LoopBack team was busy! We wrapped up items planned for our General Availability (GA) release and published the release on Wednesday, October 10th. On top of that, the team completed a number of stretc... More |
| Frequently Asked Questions About LoopBack at Node+JS Interactive
Oct 25, 2018
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The LoopBack team was delighted to be part of the Node+JS Interactive conference, which happened from October 10-12 in Vancouver. We were busy at the conference, during which we: Announced the release of LoopBack 4 GA during the keynote f... More |
| Achieving Productivity with lb4 Repository Command
Oct 17, 2018
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One of the framework features that attracts application developers is productivity. In Loopback 4 the command line interface plays an important role to achieve it. If you are building a Loopback 4 application that interacts with a database and exp... More |
| Announcing LoopBack 4 GA is Now Ready for Production Use!
Oct 10, 2018
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We are excited to announce that LoopBack 4 is GA (general availability) and ready for production use. Some of our users have already built applications with LoopBack 4 and now you can do the same too. We’ve come a long way since LoopBack 4 was an... More |
| LoopBack 4 September 2018 Milestone Update
Oct 2, 2018
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General Availability (GA) is approaching! During the last full month before LoopBack 4 GA release, the team focused on finishing the remaining GA stories and fixing known issues discovered internally and from the community to improve the framework... More |
| Fundamental Validations for HTTP Requests with LoopBack 4 and OpenAPI Spec
Sep 19, 2018
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A Controller usually expects to get valid data from the HTTP request so it can focus on executing the business logic. However, there is never a guarantee that the client side sends valid data. For example, endpoint GET Users/find expects to get a ... More |
| Turning OpenAPI Specifications into Action with LoopBack 4
Sep 12, 2018
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LoopBack - both the team and the framework - has been a longtime advocate and adopter of open API standards. For 3.x versions of the OpenAPI Specification, the framework uses Swagger 2.0 to power the API explorer since its first release. The CLI a... More |
| LoopBack 4 August 2018 Milestone Update
Aug 29, 2018
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As August, the last full month of summer, comes to an end so does our August milestone. This was a busy month in which the general focus was on addressing feedback from early adopters of LoopBack 4 and features considered essential for General Ava... More |
| Welcoming Model and Datasource Commands to LB4 CLI
Aug 22, 2018
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LoopBack 4 is the biggest change to the framework since it was first created. Along with it comes a brand new CLI tool @loopback/cli, which makes it easy for developers to scaffold applications and create artifacts such as controllers for LoopBack... More |
| My Firsts at NodeSummit 2018
Aug 16, 2018
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During the week of July 23-27, I experienced several firsts at NodeSummit. It was my first ever NodeSummit as both an attendee and a speaker (I delivered a talk on The Art of Composability and Extensibility: Crafting a Foundation for Node.js Fram... More |
| LoopBack 4 July 2018 Milestone Update
Aug 7, 2018
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As the temperature hits an all-time high across the world, our team at LoopBack is also hitting some high numbers with our progress on LoopBack 4! In the month of July, we were able to finish and release Developer Preview #3 for LoopBack 4 as well... More |
| LoopBack Adopts Module LTS Policy
Aug 2, 2018
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TL:DR; LoopBack is joining the recently announced Module LTS initiative and aligns the long-term support terms with Node.js LTS versions. More |
| LoopBack 4 Model Relations Preview
Jul 25, 2018
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Often times, LoopBack models are used to represent real life entities. As such, LoopBack is able to understand how those entities interact with each other with its concepts of relations. While this feature is alive and well in LoopBack 3, LoopBack... More |
| Announcing LoopBack 4 Developer Preview 3
Jul 20, 2018
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Whether you have been creating Node.js application using LoopBack 4 or wondering when it’s a good time to start building something serious, LoopBack 4 Developer Preview 3 is the release that you don’t want to miss! With Developer Preview 3, you c... More |
| LoopBack 4 Introduces Express Mode for CLI
Jul 18, 2018
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As we continue to work on LoopBack 4, we’re excited to tell you about new ways for developers to build with it via the LoopBack 4 CLI. LoopBack 4 CLI is a powerful tool for developers to scaffold projects and provision artifacts. There are a few ... More |
| Introducing LoopBack 4 Website
Jul 11, 2018
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In our May milestone update, we introduced a new and shiny website dedicated to LoopBack 4. You can check it out here, but you may want to read on to learn about the site’s genesis. More |
| LoopBack 4 June 2018 Milestone Update
Jul 3, 2018
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Based on the roadmap created from the spike stories, we have been able to make significant progresses for our 5 epics. Here are the highlights of the accomplishments in each area: We implemented the fundamental relation traversing by supporting re... More |
| Embedding Frontend Frameworks into LoopBack
Jun 26, 2018
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When working with LoopBack, there are many choices for frontend frameworks, however only some of the popular frontend frameworks have associated LoopBack client SDKs. In many cases, it may make sense to de-couple the frontend application from Loop... More |
| LoopBack 4 Improves Inbound HTTP Processing
Jun 20, 2018
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We started LoopBack 4 with the desire to improve all aspects of application development. One of the pain points in LoopBack 3.x was composition of Express middleware handlers, which we decided to address by rolling out a different design based on ... More |
| LoopBack Offers Index Support for Cloudant Model
Jun 13, 2018
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Cloudant connector hit its 2.x major release with several improvements. The most significant change is the support of LoopBack model indexes to optimize query performance. In loopback-connector-cloudant@1.x, all properties are treated indexable. ... More |
| LoopBack 4 May 2018 Milestone Update
Jun 5, 2018
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The sun’s out and we’re breaking all the guns out for “Developer Preview 3” (DP3)! In May various spikes that started as stretch goals from our previous milestone continued and were put into effect. You can check out the follow up issues from thes... More |
| LoopBack Doc Search Powered by Watson
May 30, 2018
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When you have over a 1000 pages of documentation, it becomes a necessity to be able to search the documentation effectively to find relevant content. With this in mind, we’ve recently changed to powering LoopBack documentation search with IBM Wats... More |
| LoopBack 4 April 2018 Milestone Update
May 8, 2018
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In April, our team was focused on delivering “Developer Preview 2” and conducting spikes which help us shape features in LoopBack 4 and create backlog tasks for our next release. Getting Developer Preview 2 successfully out the door took up our fi... More |
| LoopBack 4 GitHub Example Application : Persist Data to Cloudant (Part 3 of 3)
Apr 25, 2018
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In this series, we will work through creating a basic LoopBack 4 application that exposes REST APIs, calls out to GitHub APIs through octokat.js (a GitHub API client) to get the number of stargazers on a user-specified GitHub organization and repo... More |
| LoopBack 4 Upgrades from Swagger to OpenAPI 3.0.0
Apr 16, 2018
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The Swagger/OpenAPI specification has become the de facto standard of defining and describing machine-readable RESTful APIs over the past few years and announced its major release of version 3.0.0 in 2017. The new version also changes the official... More |
| Announcing LoopBack 4 Developer Preview 2
Apr 16, 2018
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Since the release of Developer Preview #1 in November 2017, the LoopBack team have been focusing on adding features for application developers to define and implement REST APIs with Controllers and Repositories. We also continue to improve the cor... More |
| LoopBack 4 GitHub Example Application: Call Out to GitHub (Part 2 of 3)
Apr 11, 2018
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In this series, we will work through creating a basic LoopBack 4 application that exposes REST APIs, calls out to GitHub APIs through octokat.js (a GitHub API client) to get the number of stargazers on a user-specified GitHub organization and repo... More |
| Serving a Progressive Web App from LoopBack
Apr 5, 2018
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With the emergence of Progressive Web Apps and browser APIs such as persistent storage, payments, geolocation, and push notifications, it is now possible to build mobile apps on the web platform that have many of the same features as native apps. ... More |
| LoopBack 4 March 2018 Milestone Update
Apr 1, 2018
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With spring in the air, we’ve been hard at work gearing up for a new major release of LoopBack 4, which we’ve dubbed the “Developer Preview 2”. The team has been focusing on the items needed for this release in the March Milestone. You can also se... More |
| LoopBack 4 GitHub Example Application: Create REST APIs (Part 1 of 3)
Mar 28, 2018
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In this series, we will work through creating a basic LoopBack 4 application that exposes REST APIs; calls out to GitHub APIs through octokat.js (a GitHub API client) to get the number of stargazers on a user-specified GitHub organization and repo... More |
| Introducing @loopback/boot for LoopBack 4
Mar 14, 2018
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A LoopBack 4 Application is made up of many different artifacts such as controllers, repositories, models, datasources, and so on. LoopBack 4 uses Dependency Injection to resolve dependencies on related models so your application can work as expec... More |
| LoopBack 4 Dropping Support for Node.js 6
Feb 28, 2018
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Our goal with the next version of LoopBack is to use cutting-edge features and tooling from the Node.js ecosystem. Node.js 6.x will be entering maintenance mode this April, and requires us to provide hacks and polyfills to maintain compatibility, ... More |
| Moving LoopBack 4 Example Project to the Monorepo
Feb 21, 2018
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We often face a dilemma around example projects. They are useful learning resources that demonstrate individual features in a runnable application while making it easy to tweak and play with the code. But on the other hand, they can quickly become... More |
| Track Down Dependency Injections with LoopBack 4
Feb 14, 2018
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LoopBack 4 implements an IoC container to support dependency injection with decorators. You can find more information at http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Dependency-injection.html. Dependency injection is very powerful, but when something goes wrong... More |
| Automatically Generate JSON Schema for your LoopBack 4 Models
Feb 7, 2018
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I’ve recently been working on an exciting new feature for LoopBack4 which would allow for the readily available generation of JSON Schema for your LoopBack4 models. I’ll dive right into it. Models and metadata in LoopBack 4 Currently with LoopBa... More |
| Security Advisory for LoopBack 2.x & 3.x
Jan 31, 2018
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A security advisory was issued today for users of LoopBack 2.x and 3.x. Security risk: Medium (CVSS: 4.3) Vulnerability: Prevent unauthorized alteration of records on same table. You can find the full details in the corresponding links below. L... More |
| Generate Controllers With LoopBack 4
Jan 31, 2018
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Work has been going non-stop on the upcoming LoopBack 4.0, and we’d like to share some of what we’ve just added in the current release! We’ve added the new controller generation command to the lb4 CLI toolkit, which you can install with npm i -g ... More |
| Answered in Open: Advice for Maintenance and Updating a Loopback Back-end
Jan 23, 2018
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Recently, I was approached by a LoopBack user running a single-person project powered by LoopBack 2.x, asking for an advice on how to maintain and upgrade his backend. While I could respond directly in an email, I strongly believe in maximizing th... More |
| Thanks for Helping Us Decide on the LoopBack 4 Logo
Jan 16, 2018
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Late last year, we asked for assistance from the StrongLoop community to decide upon a new LoopBack logo - one that will represent LoopBack 4. We shared five logo options ands three color palette options, asking for you to rank your favorites. We ... More |
| IBM Provides Support for Node.js, LoopBack and Express
Dec 21, 2017
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StrongLoop’s history is tied to Node.js, as is LoopBack, the highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that’s ideal for APIs. With a 2x growth rate, Node.js has skyrocketed in popularity as more and more enterprises rely on its fast start u... More |
| LoopBack 2017 Year in Review
Dec 19, 2017
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As 2017 draws to a close, we’re reflecting on the evolution of StrongLoop and LoopBack in the past twelve months. It’s been a big year for our open-source Node.js framework. It started with the introduction of the LoopBack CLI and ended with the L... More |
| Help Us Decide on a New LoopBack Logo
Dec 5, 2017
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Note: Survey has closed as of end of day, Monday, December 18th. Last week we excitedly announced the LoopBack 4 developer preview release. Your feedback helped fuel this transformation and how we built our open source framework. Now, as we are r... More |
| Writing LoopBack 4 Extensions
Nov 30, 2017
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The LoopBack 4 Developer Preview #1 release is primarily targeted at extension developers. With this preview release, extension developers can start writing extensions for LoopBack 4. With LoopBack 4 being a complete rewrite from the ground up, ex... More |
| LoopBack 4 Developer Preview Release
Nov 28, 2017
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Back in April, we kicked off LoopBack 4 as the next major advance of the popular Node.js based open source API framework. The team has been working on the new code base since then. Today I’m super excited to announce that the first Developer Previ... More |
| Tutorial: Get Started Creating LoopBack 4 Applications
Nov 14, 2017
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CASCON 2017, running from November 6-8, has come and gone. Focusing on data, systems, and society, the event also hosted the first LoopBack 4 workshop, called “API Economy Made Easy with LoopBack 4” If you missed it, you can check it out on GitHub... More |
| Calling for Contributors on LoopBack Extensions
Oct 19, 2017
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One of the objectives of LoopBack 4 is to promote extensibility to grow the ecosystem. Some of the popular extensions voted by the LoopBack community are authorization support, support of other protocols (e.g. gRPC, MQTT) and other API styles (e.g... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack - UI and Wrap-Up (part 8 of 8)
Sep 26, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Building a Vue.js Application with LoopBack - an Example
Sep 19, 2017
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NOTE: We recenty posted “Embedding Frontend Frameworks into LoopBack”, which gives a complete starter that uses the full Vue.js framework. The following blog post provides quick demo for using Vue and LoopBack. I recently had a conversation with ... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Continuous Deployment (part 7 of 8)
Sep 14, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Take Part in the API-First Hackathon with IBM Watson, Strongloop & Bluemix
Aug 29, 2017
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We’re pleased to announce that IBM and StrongLoop are working with Mobile Monday for their upcoming three day hackathon event in San Francisco! Running from September 8-10, this event provides the challenge of the “API-First Hackathon with IBM Wat... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Working with Credentials (part 6 of 8)
Aug 24, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Connecting to Cloudant (part 5 of 8)
Aug 17, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Deploying Our Application (part 4 of 8)
Aug 10, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Node Summit & AngelHack - A Brisk Week in Silicon Valley
Aug 3, 2017
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Coffee shops, Patagonia jackets and Teslas on every corner - just a few of the things I was greeted with when I landed in San Francisco International Airport last Tuesday. It was going to be a great week; with Node Summit 2017 kicking off my week ... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Exploring Our API (part 3 of 8)
Jul 25, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack: Creating Our First Model-Driven API Endpoint (part 2 of 8)
Jul 13, 2017
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In this series, we are working through building an application to support the needs of DIY bands. We’ll start out solving some basic problems and move into more complex ground, eventually transforming the application into a platform that others ca... More |
| Let's Build a Band App with LoopBack! (part 1 of 8)
Jul 6, 2017
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Note: The first phase of this series is complete. Click on the links below for each part. Part 1: Let’s Build a Band App with LoopBack! Part 2: Creating Our First Model-Driven API Endpoint Part 3: Exploring Our API Part 4: Deploying Our ... More |
| Dockerize LoopBack Connectors
Jun 27, 2017
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Introduction Data source connectors are a vital part of LoopBack that provide access to back-end data. Connectors typically provide access to an external database system. However, setting up a database system for development can be a barrier bec... More |
| How To Use Materialized Views with LoopBack Cassandra Connector
Jun 22, 2017
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In this blog, I’ll walk you through the steps and corresponding source code blocks to help make your LoopBack app interact with Cassandra Materialized Views. Install the Cassandra connector from: npm More |
| Using LoopBack to Build the Open Source Game Xtra Points
Jun 20, 2017
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Let’s start with a backstory. In 2010, my dad, Robert Okun, and I started using an Excel spreadsheet to see who could correctly predict the outcome of more NFL games on a weekly basis. This caught on quite easily, and we’ve kept the game going sin... More |
| LoopBack as an Event Publisher
Jun 15, 2017
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Most people who have used LoopBack know that it is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to quickly create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. These REST APIs can be used by client applications (We... More |
| Integrating LoopBack with ElasticSearch
Jun 1, 2017
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I have a confession to make. I’m probably the last person to hear about, and look into, ElasticSearch. Back when I was primarily a ColdFusion developer, I was a big fan of the full-text search engine Verity and how well it worked with my apps. Whe... More |
| LoopBack As A Service Using OpenWhisk
May 24, 2017
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In our previous blog we saw how we can host LoopBack as a multi-tenant micro-service on the cloud. As a quick recap, this would require us to: Expose REST APIs for CRUD on /models and /datasources resources. Use the LoopBack NodeJS APIs to c... More |
| Three New Webcasts for June - LoopBack and OpenWhisk
May 23, 2017
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We are excited to announce three new free webcasts for June! This series will focus on Open Source solutions - in this case OpenWhisk and LoopBack. Check out the topics and dates below, and be sure to register for all three! June 7, 2017: Go Ser... More |
| Refactoring LoopBack SQL Connectors
May 9, 2017
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We’ve now been developing LoopBack for over three and a half years. Like any software built at a startup’s pace, it can benefit from some much needed refactoring! This blog outlines the changes to Model Discovery and Migration. It is worth highlig... More |
| Building Enterprise APIs for SOAP Web Services Using LoopBack
May 5, 2017
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We are excited to announce that LoopBack can now generate remote methods and REST APIs for SOAP web services. This feature enables you to easily create REST APIs that invoke web services without having in-depth knowledge of the web service. SOAP h... More |
| Announcing Open Source LoopBack JSONSchemas VS Code Extension
May 2, 2017
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LoopBack is a powerful framework. As we know, “with great framework power comes great framework documentation.” When you know what you’re looking for in the docs, it’s easy to find. But discovering what’s available can be a challenge for a tool a... More |
| Cassandra Connector for LoopBack Has Arrived
Apr 27, 2017
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One of the most frequent requests from the LoopBack community is a LoopBack connector for the Apache Cassandra database. Today, we’re happy to announce the release of loopback-connector-cassandra 1.0.0. The connector implements a majority of the ... More |
| Creating a Multi-Tenant Connector Microservice Using LoopBack
Apr 25, 2017
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Background LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to quickly create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. LoopBack allows users to define data models and connect these models to backend sy... More |
| Announcing LoopBack.next, the Next Step to Make LoopBack Effortlessly Extensible
Apr 13, 2017
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NOTE: LoopBack.next has officially been renamed as LoopBack 4. History In 2013, we started LoopBack as a mobile-backend-as-a-service, evolving out of earlier efforts such as Deployd and JugglingDB. Users quickly told us that what they needed was... More |
| An Example of Using Environment Configuration in LoopBack
Apr 11, 2017
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One of the more interesting features of LoopBack I’ve been meaning to take a look at is its support for “environment configuration”. This is a fancy way of saying “configuration based on environment.” I’m still a Node newbie, but this is something... More |
| Webinar: LoopBack, MongoDB, and Continuous Integration
Feb 27, 2017
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Considering using LoopBack to create an API for your data in MongoDB? Then mark your calendars! We have a new webinar coming up on Tuesday March 28th – “LoopBack, MongoDB, and Continuous Integration”. LoopBack is a great tool for quickly generati... More |
| Webinar: Combining OpenWhisk (serverless), OpenAPI (swagger) and API Connect to Build Powerful APIs
Feb 22, 2017
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Our next webinar will be held on March 16th, focusing on “Combining OpenWhisk (serverless), OpenAPI (swagger) and API Connect to build powerful APIs”. Using the power and simplicity of serverless functions and exposing them via API Connect provid... More |
| Context Propagation in LoopBack
Feb 2, 2017
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LoopBack developers often need to propagate information (aka “context”) from the HTTP layer all the way down to data source connectors. We hear this regularly in the LoopBack discussion forums and GitHub issues. Consider the following examples: ... More |
| Webinar: Customizing Loopback – Integrating More Modules
Jan 30, 2017
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We have a new webinar coming up on Tuesday, February 21st – how to customize LoopBack by integrating more modules! LoopBack is a fantastic tool for generating a RESTful web API, and to have it up and running in no time. We’ll spend some time show... More |
| Strong-soap LoopBack module
Jan 26, 2017
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After years of work in with Java and Java EE7 technologies, I recently transitioned to IBM’s Strongloop team to work with the latest new technologies – Node.js. Making the transition from Java to Node.js has been an interesting journey, more about... More |
| Announcing the LoopBack CLI
Jan 17, 2017
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Three years ago we released slc, a veritable swiss-army knife for building and managing Node applications. The slc command-line interface (CLI) also included commands for scaffolding and modifying LoopBack apps. Over the last year, as part of th... More |
| Working with LoopBack Authentication and Authorization
Dec 15, 2016
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One of LoopBack’s core features is the ability to lock down access to your APIs and define exactly who can do what with your data. LoopBack provides multiple tools to make this easy, but it’s helpful to see a real (although simple) application dem... More |
| Working with File Storage and LoopBack
Nov 22, 2016
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Update for March, 2017: One of the things I mention at the very end of this article is how file uploads will overwrite each other if they use the same name. I fixed this with a pull request that was accepted a few days ago. By using a new confi... More |
| New Life for LoopBack Docs
Oct 11, 2016
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| Using LoopBack to Build APIs For APIs
Oct 5, 2016
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“Building APIs for APIs” sounds a bit like infinite recursion, but actually I’m talking about one of the cooler aspects of LoopBack: the ability to define a server API that maps to another server. Essentially your API acts as a proxy for another A... More |
| Generating Swagger (OpenAPI specification) from your LoopBack Application
Sep 20, 2016
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I’ve been asked about Swagger and LoopBack at a few conferences, and my answer has been: “I know LoopBack supports creating Swagger docs, but I’m not sure of the exact syntax.” Now that I’ve gotten a bit of a break from the conference scene, I tho... More |
| Isomorphic JavaScript Mobile Apps
Sep 6, 2016
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Note: This blog post is also available at IBM DeveloperWorks. The method of delivering content to a browser has continued to evolve over the years. In the early days, every page was a full payload. If you clicked a link, you got a new page. If yo... More |
| Coding Guidelines for LoopBack Are Here!
Sep 1, 2016
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To make it easier to contribute to the LoopBack project, we‘ve centralized and opened up the general coding guidelines we’ve been using internally at loopback-contributor-docs. We hope this will help clear up any ambiguity about what we expect and... More |
| Building JavaScript Charts Powered by LoopBack
Jul 29, 2016
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When we discuss APIs and LoopBack, often we’re talking about external consumers, but you can use LoopBack APIs on your own site as well. For example, one cool way to use a LoopBack REST-based API is to power client-side charting for your web site.... More |
| LoopBack Connector Development and Creating Your Own Connector
Jul 14, 2016
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I started hearing terms like “LoopBack connector” and “StrongLoop’s connector development framework” when our business was undergoing a transition to leverage community-driven connector development. This is an essential shift today to integrate w... More |
| Creating REST APIs from Data Models in API Connect
Jun 23, 2016
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When it comes to building APIs, you’ve got a lot of options. Seriously, A LOT of options. Just in the Node.js world alone, your choices include: More |
| Broadcast Your LoopBack and Node.js Skills with IBM Open Badges
Jun 21, 2016
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You may have heard about the IBM Open Badge Program. You probably know that it is a new and innovative way to display your skills, achievements and contributions online, so you can share them on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter. But did you know tha... More |
| Introduction to API Connect for LoopBack Developers
Jun 8, 2016
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If you’re a LoopBack developer, you have no doubt heard about IBM API Connect, the first product to come out of the IBM acquisition of StrongLoop. You may not have paid too much attention to it yet, perhaps thinking it’s not relevant to you, or p... More |
| User-based Authentication with Loopback
May 17, 2016
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Many who are familiar with LoopBack first discovered it as a way to build RESTful APIs, but LoopBack offers more than just the tools API developers need to build the API itself. LoopBack also also provides optional features that are focused on enr... More |
| Working with Pagination and LoopBack
May 6, 2016
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I knew LoopBack supported pagination, but not exactly how it did. So, I wanted to build a quick demo for my own learning and I thought it might be useful to share it with others. This will be a relatively simple blog post to demonstrate what I lea... More |
| Managing LoopBack Configurations the Twelve-Factor Way
May 3, 2016
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Managing Loopback configuration files for multiple environments can be a hassle. In this blog we demonstrate how we do it using some well-known practices for scalable and maintainable codebases from the The Twelve-Factor App methodology. The key i... More |
| Working with Geographical Data in your API
Apr 26, 2016
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When building models with LoopBack, one of the more interesting features is the ability to define properties that represent locations. The “GeoPoint” type lets you add a location to your model that can be used in a variety of ways. Let’s look at s... More |
| Applying Custom Logic in Phases: Using Remote Hooks in LoopBack
Apr 19, 2016
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Recently, we looked at how to use remote methods to expose custom logic as REST API endpoints in Loopback. That was pretty cool, but it just isn’t enough if we want to build a full-blown, production API. Even in a relatively simple case like expos... More |
| Working with LoopBack’s Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) System
Apr 13, 2016
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When we talk about LoopBack, we’re usually talking about rapid API generation. But behind the REST APIs is a full object-relational mapping (ORM) system that enables you to do all the standard create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations in ... More |
| Remote Methods in Loopback: Creating Custom Endpoints
Apr 8, 2016
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One of the nicest features of Loopback is the ability to quickly expose existing datasources (MySQL, MongoDB, Cloudant, etc.) as REST APIs with standard CRUD (create, retrieve, update and delete) support. But let’s be honest, that’s not really goi... More |
| Webcast Available – StrongLoop to API Connect: the Evolution
Apr 5, 2016
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Recently, Dennis Ashby (IBM Worldwide Director, IBM API Connect Solutions) hosted a webcast telling StrongLoop and LoopBack users everything to know about the new release of StrongLoop. IBM API Connect is a comprehensive management solution that c... More |
| Introduction to LoopBack Presentation
Mar 31, 2016
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On March 31, I gave a presentation on LoopBack and StrongLoop. I’ve embedded the recording here: More |
| Examples of Validations for LoopBack Models
Mar 29, 2016
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When working with LoopBack models, you can validate data before it gets persisted into your datastore multiple different ways. The documentation describes the various methods, but I wanted to play with it a bit and demonstrate a few examples. To ... More |
| Securing Your API with OAuth
Mar 28, 2016
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| Migrating a Legacy System to LoopBack (Even with Complicated Data!)
Mar 3, 2016
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We know LoopBack makes it a breeze to create APIs that expose SQL & NoSQL databases (among others), but in real business environments, data isn’t always this tidy. As business systems develop over years, it’s not uncommon for information to be... More |
| Part 4: Ionic & LoopBack Frameworks – Testing with Travis
Nov 10, 2015
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In the first three articles in this series, you built a simple mobile app and server using the Ionic Framework and StrongLoop LoopBack. In this article, you’ll learn about one key advantage of building mobile apps with Ionic: access to the JavaScr... More |
| Part 3: Ionic & LoopBack Frameworks – Building the Ionic App
Oct 6, 2015
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In the first two articles in this series, you built a REST API using StrongLoop LoopBack and several AngularJS directives that use your API via the LoopBack AngularJS SDK. With these two components, you’ve done most of the work of building a hybri... More |
| Part 2: Ionic & LoopBack Frameworks – Directives with the AngularJS LoopBack SDK
Sep 9, 2015
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In the first article in this series, you built out a simple REST API for tracking times using StrongLoop LoopBack. The REST API enabled you to login using Facebook OAuth and save times recorded by a stopwatch. In order to make this API useful, you... More |
| Part 1: Ionic & LoopBack Frameworks – Building a REST API
Aug 10, 2015
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I have a confession: I hate native mobile development. Most of the reason why I started working with NodeJS was my struggles with managing mobile app development for a small startup in 2012. Back then, native mobile development struggled with pain... More |
| Introducing the Xamarin SDK for LoopBack
Aug 5, 2015
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When we started the open source LoopBack project two years ago, we knew that its use would be fueled by the needs of mobile solutions. We were a very small team and only able to develop for iOS, Android, and AngularJS. Although we were keenly inte... More |
| How To: Build Xamarin Apps with Node.js REST APIs and SQL Server
Aug 5, 2015
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Ever wonder what the backend for your Xamarin App should be? As a .Net developer who was asked to build mobile apps, I have gravitated to Xamarin and found it to be excellent platform to build, monitor and test my cross platform mobile app. But, I... More |
| Build Real-Time Node.js Apps with Angular LiveSet and LoopBack
Jul 15, 2015
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What is LiveSet? LiveSet is an AngularJS module that makes it easy to build real time applications. We created it so you can focus on building your app instead of cobbling together several libraries and frameworks. Unlike other real-time librarie... More |
| Use LoopBack’s Geolocation Feature to Build a Simple Node.js User Registration App
Jun 3, 2015
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If you’ve been looking for a framework to help you get your REST APIs up and running quickly, with a robust set of functionality and flexibility, then the LoopBack Framework is what you want. This framework helps developers create APIs that integr... More |
| Getting Started with the Node.js LoopBack Connector for ArangoDB
May 12, 2015
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This tutorial is the third in a series of posts that will help you get started with some of the many user contributed NoSQL connectors for LoopBack. In this series we will cover usage of the connectors for: Couchbase Riak RethinkDB Arang... More |
| Introducing StrongLoop’s Unopinionated Node.js Pub/Sub
Apr 28, 2015
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Unopinionated, Node.js powered Publish – Subscribe for mobile, IoT and the browser. There are many ways to push data from a Node app to another app (written in Node, the browser, or other platforms and languages). Several frameworks have arisen a... More |
| Getting Started with Node.js LoopBack Connector for Couchbase
Apr 23, 2015
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Introduction LoopBack is the leading open source, enterprise-ready Node.js framework for helping developers to create APIs integrated with legacy and next gen backends that at the same time enables mobile and micro services architectures. LoopBa... More |
| Two-Factor Authentication with LoopBack
Mar 3, 2015
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Before I get into the code and walk you through it, I wanted to talk about my motivation for this post. I recently spoke at the Confoo developer conference in Montreal. If you haven’t been, it’s a whirlwind of new technologies, complex data theori... More |
| An Update on the LoopBack Roadmap and Backlog
Feb 18, 2015
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It’s no surprise that here at StrongLoop we develop our software using agile methodologies, most notably scrum. Building a next-generation API platform means we have to iterate quickly, change direction just as quickly, and re-prioritize... More |
| Managing the LoopBack Project with Waffle
Feb 18, 2015
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[A guest post from our friends at Waffle] Waffle started off as a work tracking tool for open source repositories on GitHub. Today, Waffle works for software development teams of all kinds, from those managing open source projects to enter... More |
| Announcing the Official Node.js Connector for the Oracle Database by Oracle
Jan 27, 2015
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Oracle has released a new Node.js driver for Oracle Database on GitHub! This is exciting for the Node community. The interest in Node applications that connect to the widely available Oracle Database is being recognized and rewarded with a driver... More |
| Announcing the Open Source Node.js LoopBack API Gateway
Oct 9, 2014
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Note: Since the publication of this blog, the StrongLoop API Gateway was relaunched on August 5, 2015. Read this announcement blog to learn more about the latest version. This morning, we released the open-source version of the LoopBack API Gatew... More |
| Getting Started with the LoopBack API Gateway Sample Application
Oct 9, 2014
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Note: Since the publication of this blog, the StrongLoop API Gateway was relaunched on August 5, 2015. Read this announcement blog to learn more about the latest version. In case you missed it, today we announced the availability of the open sour... More |
| Node.js API Tip: GeoLocation
Oct 3, 2014
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In the rapidly evolving data analytics space that is driving renewed IT and marketing spend, one of the key metrics is end user tracking is… Who are you (Identity)? What are you entitled to (Access)? How are you (Wellness)? Which t... More |
| Building Enterprise APIs with StrongLoop Support for Swagger 2.0
Sep 6, 2014
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The Swagger 2.0 specification was officially released today and at StrongLoop we are excited to announce that LoopBack is the first Node.js framework to support Swagger 2.0. Using LoopBack you can now take a Swagger 1.2 or 2.0 specification and au... More |
| How to Deploy a Node.js REST API Server on Red Hat’s OpenShift
Sep 3, 2014
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The world is moving toward the cloud—both public and private clouds—and infrastructure demands are giving rise to a new generation of integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) API servers which specifically handle this use case with the added dime... More |
| Node.js API Tip: Offline Sync and Replication
Aug 26, 2014
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Mobile technologies have radically changed our personal lives and are now doing the same in the workplace—perhaps not as rapidly as many of us would like! Not every office looks like this, although at times we might feel this way. Many of us no... More |
| Getting Started with Node.js for the Java Developer
Aug 14, 2014
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August, 2014. We have refreshed this popular blog post with updated IDEs and LoopBack instructions. Let me start with a confession: I was a Java developer for nearly 10 years and fully embraced... More |
| Node.js API Tip: Model Driven Development
Jul 14, 2014
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Today’s tip focuses on APIs – which just so happen to be the primary use case for Node.js! APIs are driving the new frontedge – inclusive of mobile, tablets, wearables, web browsers, sensors, et al by providing rich backend d... More |
| Announcing Support for Google, Facebook and GitHub Authentication in LoopBack
Jun 3, 2014
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Introduction These days most people have dozens of logins, and no one really wants to register for yet another website or app. It’s easier to attract new users by allowing them to login with an existing account from a popular service such as Goo... More |
| Open Source Replication and Offline Sync for Node.js and Devices
May 22, 2014
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Today, StrongLoop is excited to announce support for replication and offline synchronization in our LoopBack API framework. What makes this unique is that it is completely open source and powered by Node.js. Loopback is an open source API framewor... More |
| New in the LoopBack Android SDK 1.3 – User Auth and Storage Service
May 20, 2014
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StrongLoop is excited to announce a new version of the LoopBack Android SDK 1.3. The release adds two new features: user authentication and storage service client. What’s LoopBack? It’s an open-source API server for Node.js applications. It enabl... More |
| Part 1: Enable Push Notifications With a Private mBaaS Hosted on Amazon – Intro to LoopBack
May 15, 2014
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This is part one of a four-part tutorial on setting up a mobile backend as a service on Amazon and iOS and Android client applications to enable push notification. To send push notifications, you’ll need to create a LoopBack server application, th... More |
| Part 2: Enable Push Notifications With a Private mBaaS Hosted on Amazon – Android Client
May 15, 2014
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This is the second of a four-part tutorial on setting up a mobile backend as a service on Amazon and setting up iOS and Android client applications to enable push notification. If you want to setup Push Notifications for an iOS app refer to Part 3... More |
| Part 3: Enable Push Notifications With a Private mBaaS Hosted on Amazon – iOS Client
May 15, 2014
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This is the third of a four-part tutorial on setting up a mobile backend as a service on Amazon and setting up iOS and Android client applications to enable push notification. If you want to setup Push Notifications for an iOS app refer to Part Th... More |
| Part 4: Enable Push Notifications With a Private mBaaS Hosted on Amazon – Putting It All Together
May 15, 2014
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This is the last section of a four-part tutorial on setting up a mobile backend as a service on Amazon and setting up iOS and Android client applications to enable push notifications. In this section we’ll explain how to run the backend LoopBack a... More |
| Getting Started with the PostgreSQL Connector for LoopBack
May 7, 2014
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StrongLoop is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the LoopBack PostgreSQL Connector, that enables LoopBack powered applications to access PostgreSQL databases. The PostgreSQL connector is a new member of the LoopBack connector family. It supp... More |
| Comparing Express, Restify, hapi and LoopBack for building RESTful APIs
Apr 29, 2014
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in April, 2014. We have refreshed this popular blog post. If you are writing a Node.js application, chances are you going to have some kind of API endpoints to be consumed by your front end or exp... More |
| Turn SOAP into REST APIs with LoopBack
Apr 24, 2014
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Nowadays, “web services” often means REST (Representational state transfer) APIs using JSON as the data exchange format. However, the first generation of web services was built using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), a standard protocol based... More |
| Full Stack JavaScript in Action with LoopBack’s Browser Support
Apr 21, 2014
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Browser Support LoopBack version 1.8.0 introduces browser support with two key features: The loopback.Remote connector and the browserify distribution. These enable running a LoopBack client application in the browser that shares code with a ... More |
| Beyond Node.js Express: An Intro to Koa.js and a Preview of Zones
Apr 11, 2014
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In late 2013, the team behind Express.js announced a new framework called Koa. It uses some features that require an unstable dev version of Node, but in this post I’ll show you how easy it is give it a try both locally and on Heroku. Before We... More |
| Managing Objects in LoopBack with the Storage Provider of Your Choice
Apr 7, 2014
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Introduction Applications often need to store and use files such as images, videos, and PDFs. Nowadays, there are a lot of choices for cloud storage providers, each of which provides a different API. Meanwhile, web and mobile platforms provide di... More |
| Node.js is Required for Next Generation API Servers
Apr 1, 2014
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Background About two years ago, Jeff Cross and I created deployd, an interactive development environment (IDE) and API server for rapidly prototyping REST APIs for HTML5 and mobile apps. As front end developers we wanted to be able to easi... More |
| How-to Build CRUD Enabled iOS Apps with the LoopBack API Server – Part 1
Mar 25, 2014
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In this two-part tutorial we’ll be creating an iOS app that connects to a LoopBack API server to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations. In Part One we’ll show you how to fetch data stored in an in-memory data source. Part Two ... More |
| How-to Build CRUD Enabled iOS Apps with the LoopBack API Server – Part 2
Mar 24, 2014
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Welcome to the second installment of a two-part tutorial on how to create an iOS app that connects to a LoopBack API server application to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations. In Part One we looked at how to fetch data. In t... More |
| Defining and Mapping Data Relations with LoopBack Connected Models
Mar 24, 2014
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In LoopBack, working with data is usually the core of business logic. We typically start by defining models to represent business data. Then we attach models to configured data sources to receive behaviors provided by various connectors. For examp... More |
| API’s Lack Conventions and Standards – Two Perspectives on Solutions
Feb 12, 2014
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I just came back from Apps World 2014, having attended most of the sessions on the API Strategies track among others. Apps World covers a wide spectrum of technical topics from mobile front-end development using HTML5 to back-end API development ... More |
| Why the Enterprise needs an API Tier built in Node.js
Jan 29, 2014
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Background Many enterprises started as small companies that adopted business process automation systems to help scale their operations. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, such systems were typically custom-built, since little “off the shelf” enterprise... More |
| How to Migrate an mBaaS: Deployd to LoopBack
Jan 15, 2014
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Background LoopBack and Deployd are both flavors of the “noBackend” and “mBaaS” trends. Frameworks and tooling specifically designed to simplify backend development, allowing you to focus on building great web and mobile user experiences.... More |
| A Brief History of Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS)
Jan 15, 2014
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Background About two years ago, Jeff Cross and I created an obscure open source project called deployd. A framework for rapidly building REST APIs for HTML5 and mobile apps. We didn’t realize it at the time, but it was our tiny contribution ... More |
| Getting Started with Android Push Notifications in LoopBack
Jan 14, 2014
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In the previous blog post Push notifications with LoopBack, we have described how to setup your LoopBack application for sending push notifications to iOS devices such as iPhone. In this installment, we will look at pushing notifications to And... More |
| Getting Started with iOS Push Notifications in LoopBack
Jan 14, 2014
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We are pleased to announce that you can now send push notifications to mobile devices (iOS and Android) using LoopBack with the release of the loopback-push-notifications module. What’s LoopBack? It’s an open source mobile backend, powered by Node... More |
| Mobile App Development with Full-Stack Javascript (part 1 of 4)
Dec 12, 2013
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In this four part blog series, we talk about mobile application development using JavaScript on both front end and backend as a true platform. Although this concept of full-stack JavaScript is not new, there are limited reference implementations o... More |
| Using StrongLoop to Overcome Challenges with Connecting Mobile Apps to Data
Dec 11, 2013
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Developers are well aware of the challenges presented by the diversity of mobile devices; but the diversity of backend systems presents equal challenges. Not only are there many different kinds of back end systems and data stores, but application ... More |
| Deploying LoopBack mBaaS on Amazon EC2
Nov 21, 2013
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MBaaS experience without the lock-in or cost StrongLoop distro has been supported on the Amazon Marketplace since the July 1.1 release; so it’s no surprise that the new StrongLoop Suite (StrongNode, StrongOps and LoopBack) is ready to be used out... More |
| Connecting LoopBack to Data sources on Rackspace, Part 1 of 3: Connecting to MongoDB with ObjectRocket
Nov 21, 2013
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MongoDB and LoopBack Node on Rackspace Data brings mobile applications to life and MongoDB is often a preferred choice for mobile first data. MongoDB’s powerful document-oriented database combined with Rackspace’s MongoDB as a service pl... More |
| How to run Node.js on the JVM with Avatar.js and LoopBack
Nov 11, 2013
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Background LoopBack is an open source mobile API framework for Node.js from StrongLoop. It not only helps you expose REST api, but provides you the ability to build APIs, define data models, connect to data sources including databases such a... More |
| Getting Started with the MySQL Connector for LoopBack
Nov 6, 2013
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We’re happy to announce the release of the LoopBack MySQL Connector that enables LoopBack applications to access MySQL databases. It is being released as part of StrongLoop Suite 1.1, as a GitHub module, and as an NPM package . StrongLoop... More |
| Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 5 of 5: Model Synchronization with Relational Databases
Oct 31, 2013
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Last time, we looked at using LoopBack while defining models from scratch. In the last part of this 5-part series, we demonstrate how to synchronize your data. Now I have defined a LoopBack model, can LoopBack create or update the database ... More |
| Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 4 of 5: Models by Instance Introspection
Oct 24, 2013
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Last time, we looked at using LoopBack with relational databases, allowing you to consume existing data. This time around, we are looking at your options when the data does not have a schema. I have JSON documents from REST services and NoS... More |
| Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 3 of 5: Model Discovery with Relational Databases
Oct 17, 2013
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In the prior part of this 5-part series, we looked at schema definitions and defined a model using an in-memory source to mock up the data access. This time around, we are looking at model discovery with existing relational databases or JSON d... More |
| Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 2 of 5: Models with Schema Definitions
Oct 9, 2013
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Last time, we looked at how you can mobilize data through LoopBack with open models, which works well for free-form style data. This time around, we are looking at models with schema definitions. I want to build a mobile application th... More |
| Recipes for LoopBack Models, Part 1 of 5: Open Models
Oct 3, 2013
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Rich mobile applications are driven by data. Data can be produced and consumed by mobile devices, browsers, cloud services, legacy applications, databases, and other backend systems. LoopBack mobilizes data through models that represent business ... More |
| Deploying LoopBack mBaaS on Rackspace
Sep 17, 2013
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Fanatical Support Meets Strong Node Fanatical Support has made Rackspace the leader in enterprise hosting. The Fanatical Support mantra, support for open source products, and strong SLA has made them the preferred vendor for IT ops in companies ... More |
| Deploying LoopBack mBaaS on Cloud Foundry
Sep 17, 2013
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Getting Started with LoopBack on Cloud Foundry Most mobile developers want to focus on the front-end of their apps and not get caught up in having to figure out how to write a backend, connect it to data sources or worse how to manage and scale... More |