Originally published on strongloop.com

Happy New Year! The number of LoopBack 4 downloads in 2019 increased more than double than that in 2018. Thank you for your continuous support in using and contributing to LoopBack. We cannot do this alone and we really appreciate all the contributions from the community. In December, we were happy to have 3 community members join us as maintainers: @derdeka, dougal83 and achrinza!

As year 2020 commences, let us summarize our development activities in the last quarter of 2019.

• Migration Guide: created the outline for general runtime migration and added details on migrating Express middleware and model relations.
• Going cloud native: added extensions for observability and deployment documentation
• Authentication and authorization: enhanced the documentation and enabled token based authentication in API Explorer
• Inclusion of Related Models: completed MVP and ability to allow custom scope.
• Partition Key with Cloudant and CouchDB: added support for partitioned database
• Creating REST API from Model Classes: added the ability to generate controller from Model and Repository classes

Originally published on strongloop.com

It's 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣!

Happy New Year! Is the snow dancing outside of your window or is the sunshine bringing warmth and glow to the grass around you? No matter where you are, the LoopBack team is thankful for you being with us through 2019! It means a lot to us that you choose LoopBack for your applications and projects.

We're also excited to have Denny, Douglas, and Rifa as LoopBack maintainers! They've been actively helpful in our community. We appreciate all the contributions and great work. Welcome to the team!

Even though this past December was a short month due to the holidays, the list of the accomplished tasks is not short! Check out the sections below for the progress we made in each area:

• From Model Definition to REST API: build a LB4 app with just models!
• Inclusion of Related Models: enable custom scope for inclusion.
• Authentication: new added user profile factory and StrategyAdapter.
• @loopback/context Improvement: invoke interceptors based on their callers.
• Application Life Cycle: application states and the shutdown hooks.
• OpenAPI Enhancer Service: contribute OpenAPI spec pieces from extensions.
• Improving Juggler and Connectors: new property settings.
• New ESLint Rules: applied new @typescript-eslint rules.
• Documentation Improvements