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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.
Long Term Support
We don't provide any LTS version for LoopBack 4 yet. Please join the discussion
in loopback-next#4398
if you are interested in a version that's less frequently changed.
| Version | Status | Published | EOL |
| ---------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- |
| LoopBack 4 | Current | Oct 2018 | Apr 2028 _(minimum)_ |
| LoopBack 3 | End-of-Life | Dec 2016 | Dec 2020 |
| LoopBack 2 | End-of-Life | Jul 2014 | Apr 2019 |
Please refer to our
Long Term Support Policy
for more details.
Installation
Make sure you have the following installed:
| Package | Version/-s | Link | Note |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Node.js | Maintenance LTS (_v20_) <br/> Active LTS (_v22_) <br/> Current (_v24_) | https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/ | <span style="color: yellow;">The use of the current version for production is not recommended</span>. |
You can generate a project with our generator or with the CLI as follows:
npm create loopback
npx -p @loopback/cli lb appTo 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.
Security
If you think you have discovered a new security issue with any LoopBack package,
please do not report it on GitHub. Instead, send an email to
[email protected] with a full description and
steps to reproduce.
See SECURITY.md for more details.
Team
Project Architect
| Raymond Feng |
| :---------------------------------------------: |
| [![raymondfeng]](http://github.com/raymondfeng) |
Technical Steering Committee
| Raymond Feng | Diana Lau | Mario Estrada | Rifa Achrinza | Francisco Buceta | Samarpan Bhattacharya |
| :---------------------------------------------: | :-----------------------------------: | :--------------------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------: | :------------------------------------------: |
| [![raymondfeng]](http://github.com/raymondfeng) | [![dhmlau]](http://github.com/dhmlau) | [![marioestradarosa]](https://github.com/marioestradarosa) | [![achrinza]](https://github.com/achrinza) | [![frbuceta]](https://github.com/frbuceta) | [![samarpanB]](https://github.com/samarpanB) |
Other Project Maintainers
| Nora Abdelgadir | Matthew Schnee | Hage Yaapa |
| :----------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------------: |
| [![nabdelgadir]](https://github.com/nabdelgadir) | [![mschnee]](https://github.com/mschnee) | [![hacksparrow]](https://github.com/hacksparrow) |
| Agnes Lin | Madaky | Hugo Da Roit |
| [![agnes512]](https://github.com/agnes512) | [![madaky]](https://github.com/madaky) | [![yaty]](https://github.com/yaty) |
| Nico Flaig | Denny Bartelt | Douglas McConnachie |
| [![nflaig]](https://github.com/nflaig) | [![derdeka]](https://github.com/derdeka) | [![dougal83]](https://github.com/dougal83) |
| Samarpan Bhattacharya | Muhammad Aaqil | |
| [![samarpanB]](https://github.com/samarpanB) | [![aaqilniz]](https://github.com/aaqilniz) | |
See
all contributors.
Alumni
- @ritch
- @superkhau
- @rashmihunt
- @kjdelisle
- @virkt25
- @shimks
- @b-admike
- @deepakrkris
- @bajtos
- @jannyhou
- @emonddr
License
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