Loopback Walkthrough

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Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthQssL_vFk

Blog Article: http://www.solutionstreet.com/blog/javascript-server-apis-with-node-and-loopback-video

Github: https://github.com/afrankel/loopback

Docs: http://loopback.io/doc/

Walkthrough discusses:

1. Easily create a skeleton app that works from the start.

2. Create basic model with attributes that has CRUD processing out of the box. - slc loopback:model

3. Create relationships and show different relationships

4. Connect to datasources - mySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.

5. Migration of data models

6. Persistence of data

7. Querying data with filtering

8. Hide APIs - making them private

9. Custom methods

10. Operational hooks (e.g., before filters) - http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb2/Operation-hooks.html

11. Override existing (default) CRUD methods

12. Validations - standard and custom.

13. Access control lists (ACL) - slc loopback:acl http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb2/Controlling-data-access.html

14. Access tokens/CORS

15. ES6 support

16. Logging/Debugging

17. Console playground (like Rails console) - https://github.com/GovRight/loopback-console