API in 5 - Loopback

Web APIs are hard. Now, thanks to Loopback, they don't have to be. In this talk, I'll show you (yes! you!) how you can have a RESTful web service up in minutes to support any application you want to make - mobile, Angular, anything - and how you can build on it to make it do whatever you need it to.

This is the longer version of the lightning talk on the same topic!

Transcript

1. API in 5 - Loopback
   by David Okun (@dokun24), Developer
   Evangelist, Strongloop & Swift@IBM
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2. Agenda
   • AboutMe.js
   • Why Express.js?
   • Why Loopback?
   • Live Demo
   • Questions & Answers
   

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3. AboutMe.js
   • I usually do Swift
   but…
   • Javascript is not my
   primary language
   • Joined IBM November
   2016
   • My first server ran on
   Parse
   

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4. Why Express.js?
   • Because it rules, and it has for a
   while.
   

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7. What is even a Loopback?
   • THE easiest & fastest
   way to set up a
   RESTful web API
   • Uses Express, Node,
   and Yeoman
   • Get an API up with
   writing zero code
   

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8. • lb
   • lb acl
   • lb app
   • lb boot-script
   • lb datasource
   • lb export-api-
   def
   • lb middleware
   • lb model
   • lb property
   • lb relation
   • lb remote-method
   • lb swagger
   

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9. • lb
   • lb acl
   • lb boot-script
   • lb datasource
   • lb export-api-
   def
   • lb model
   • lb relation
   

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10. BEARS
    

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12. I CAN HAS CHEEZ*BEAR*GER?
    

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13. LIVE DEMO
    

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14. Recap
    • Multiple datasource connectors, ACLs, etc.
    • Active open-source development
    • https://loopback.io
    

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15. One More Thing…
    • Tweet about this (and tag
    @dokun24) with the hashtag
    #bearsnotcats
    

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16. THANK YOU!
    

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