Overview
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Learn how to quickly and efficiently build REST-based APIs using LoopBack, an easy-to-use Node.js framework.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- What is LoopBack?
- LoopBack installation
- Using the CLI to scaffold
- Running the application
- Models and how they relate to APIs
- Creating a model via CLI
- Testing our model with Explorer
- What are data sources?
- Connect to Mongo
- Modifying the in-memory data source to save data
- What is LoopBack's default security?
- Locking down the app
- Working with users via Explorer
- Understanding remote methods
- Remote hooks
- Operation hooks in action
- Remote methods, remote hooks, or operation hooks?
- URL parameter syntax and examples
- Paging support
- Alias support
- Validating our data
- Create a front end
- How it works
- Debugging
- Next steps
