nikolasmelui/loopback-next

LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.

loopback-next

LoopBack makes it easy to build modern applications that require complex integrations.

• Fast, small, powerful, extensible core
• Generate real APIs with a single command
• Define your data and endpoints with OpenAPI
• No maintenance of generated code

Status: General Availability

LoopBack 4 GA (General Availability) has been released in October 2018, read more in the announcement post.

The documentation website is https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/.

Learn about the latest and greatest features and technologies in LoopBack 4 by using it for your next project. Start by having a look at Getting Started.

Check the API documentation for all the API usages in each package.

LoopBack 3 became active LTS version, and LoopBack 2 became maintenance LTS version.

Version	Status	Published	EOL
LoopBack 4	Current	Oct 2018	Apr 2021 (minimum)
Loopback 3	Active LTS	Dec 2016	Dec 2020
Loopback 2	Maintenance LTS	Jul 2014	Apr 2019

Please refer to our Long Term Support Policy for more details.

Installation

Make sure you have the following installed:

• Node.js >= 8.9.0

Install LoopBack 4 CLI to help create new projects as follows:

npm i -g @loopback/cli

To create your first LoopBack 4 application, see Getting Started.

Documentation

• Official documentation
• API documentation
• FAQ
• LoopBack 3 vs LoopBack 4
• Tutorials
• Examples

Contributing

See the following resources to get you started:

• Contributing Guidelines
• Monorepo overview
• Developing LoopBack

You can join the team by posting a comment to issue #110.

Team

Project Architects

Raymond Feng	Miroslav Bajtos	Ritchie Martori

Project Maintainers

Biniam Admikew	Diana Lau	Janny Hou
Hage Yaapa	Nora Abdelgadir	Mario Estrada
Hugo Da Roit	Dominique Emond	Agnes Lin

See all contributors.

License

MIT