The document summarizes a LoopBack Meetup that took place on February 5, 2019. The meetup included demos on migrating from LoopBack 3 to 4, creating REST APIs in 5 steps, and an overview of LoopBack 4. It also provided information on creating REST APIs for a shopping application using LoopBack 4 and its features like models, controllers, datasources, repositories, services, and API explorer.

1. LoopBack Meetup
February 5, 2019

2. Agenda
Demo: Migrating your LB3 assets to LB4
Jamil Spain
@iamjamilspain
Demo: REST APIs in 5 Steps
Biniam Admikew
@badmikew
@HouJanny
LB4 Overview
Janny Hou

3. REST APIs in
Minutes with
LoopBack 4
Janny Hou, IBM
Email: juehou@ca.ibm.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HouJanny
February 5, 2019
https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/

4. Hope you could…
Learn a little more about LoopBack
Have fun
Stay connected!
@MobileDiana
@StrongLoop Hashtags: #LoopBack, #LoopBack4
Diana Lauhttp://v4.loopback.io/
StrongLoop Developer Community

5. u Background
u Create REST APIs with shopping app
- REST experience
- GraphQL experience
u Who are our target users
- API Developers
- Extension Developers
- Platform Developers
u Cloud native integration
- IBM Cloud
- Kubernetes
Schedule

6. v OpenSource
v Node.js
v Microservice
v TypeScript

7. Shopping app
lb4 model lb4 controllerlb4 datasource lb4 repositorylb4 app
lb4 service

8. LoopBack API Explorer

9. LOOPBACK: A NODE.JS API
CREATION FRAMEWORK
API
Endpoints
Services
(REST, SOAP, ..)
Databases
(MySQL,
MongoDB, ..)

10. REST APIs
TodoListApplication
http://localhost:3000/explorer
OASGraph Library
GraphQL APIs
http://localhost:3001/graphql
OpenAPI Spec
EXAMPLE - TODO APPLICATION WITH GRAPHQL APIS
Tutorial: https://v4.loopback.io/oasgraph.html

11. What you
can do with
LoopBack

12. Cloud Native
Experience
u Deploying to Kubernetes on
IBM Cloud:
https://loopback.io/doc/en/l
b4/deploying_to_ibm_cloud_k
ubernetes.html
u Deploying to Cloud Foundry on
IBM Cloud:
https://loopback.io/doc/en/l
b4/Deploying-to-IBM-
Cloud.html
u Deploy to PM2 and Nginx:
https://loopback.io/doc/en/l
b4/deploying-with-pm2-and-
nginx.html

13. Thank You!