LoopBack 2019 Year in Review

Grab your seasonal beverage of choice, whether hot or cold, and read on for a trip down 2019 memory lane!

Well done, LoopBack team!

With the team focusing so much on enhancing and imporving LoopBack 4, there were a lot of updates. In terms of the features, here are the highlights:

Authentication & Authorization

Model relations

Architectural improvements

Migration / Migration guide

Strengthen the core modules as a platform for building large-scale Node.js projects

Enhancements in connectors

Update Example Shopping app to showcase the features we’ve added

Improvement in documentation

Enabled Node.js 12 support, Added latest TypeScript 3.7 support, switch to ESLint, etc.

We would like to provide more visibility to you (our users) on what we have accomplished and our plans, so we started to create blog posts to keep everyone up-to-date. We always welcome feedback!

The LoopBack team managed to join some events throughout the year!

Raymond also presented at a meetup in Santa Clara in May. “Building APIs at Warp Speed with LoopBack “

As mentioned earlier, Raymond Feng attended the 2019 API Awards Ceremony during API World 2019, in October to accept the 2019 API Award for the “Best in API Middleware” category.

In March, the LoopBack team announced LoopBack 3 was receiving an extended long term support to provide more time for users to move to the new version which is a different programming model and language. The revised LTS start is December 2019 and the revised end of life is December 2020.

While much of their focus was on improving LoopBack 4, the team also shared insight into using the framework as well. Here’s a look back!

For more details about work on LoopBack, the best resource is the monthly milestone updates. The LoopBack team outlined their progress with these updates, often explaining hurdles or rationale for changes and tweaks. Check them out below:

The LB team will also work on feature parity that is needed for LB3 to LB4 migration, and the developer experience to make users’ lives easier. They would like to take some time in each milestone to address some of the pain points that users mentioned. The team is also looking at innovation around cloud native deployment, database integration, as well as messaging/event driven style APIs.

Finally, look for improved documentation that address user questions, and more up-to-date docs that better reflect the quickly-changing code base.

Keep an eye out to see the developments in the new year!

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