IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ FIRST

[Rand McKinney]

Here's some important information that consolidates a bunch of prior posts.

Announcements list / group

LoopBack Announcements is a low-volume mailing list announcements from the LoopBack team, including security advisories.  We recommend that you subscribe to it to get notified of important announcements.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/loopbackjs-announcements

Scrumboard

LoopBack has a public scrumboard powered by Waffle.io, available for viewing to all our community members!  Look there to find out the project's top issues and priorities at any given time.

For more information, check out the blog posts:

• https://waffle.io/blog/2015/02/18/open-source-spotlight-strongloop/
  
• http://strongloop.com/strongblog/an-update-on-the-loopback-roadmap-and-backlog/
  
• http://strongloop.com/strongblog/managing-the-loopback-project-with-waffle/

Examples

We have a large and growing number of example repositories. See Tutorials and examples for a list.

Most of these examples are complete working apps.

Please help contribute some examples, and get some swag in return! 

If you run into any problems or bugs, create an issue directly in the example repo (not the main loopback repo).  Please add related questions and solutions -- just send a pull request to the relevant repo.  Even if you don't know the answer, send a pull request to add the question to the README file and we'll try to address it.

Promises support

There have been some questions about LoopBack's support for promises.  Partial support is in place, and we're working to finish it.  We're tracking the work in issue  #418.

At this point, documentation is minimal: https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Using-promises.html.

We plan to update API docs to include promise APIs, as well, but that hasn't been done yet.  See #1409 for the doc tasks.

LoopBack CLI

LoopBack's very own CLI was released in early 2017.  For details, see the announcement blog post.

You can install it with:

npm install -g loopback-cli

This tool includes all the LoopBack scaffolding and dev commands that slc did. Because it's purely a development tool and doesn’t include any runtime tooling, you can install it without installing native compiler tools.

FAQs

See the FAQ in the docs.

Contributing to LoopBack

We welcome contributions to both code and documentation.  Please read Contributing to LoopBack for guidelines and more information.

Who's using LoopBack?

To see some of the organizations that are actively using LoopBack today, go to http://loopback.io/users/.  

As you can see, the list includes some large, well-known companies as well as start-ups.  You can be sure that there are more on the way!

Thanks,

The LoopBack team

[John Gwinner]

I just checked and it seems to be gone - can we update the pinned post, create the waffle, or let us know where to go?

Thank you,

        == John ==