Why Loopback rocks? - Speaker Deck

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Why Loopback Rocks?

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Jeremy Lu @thecat | [email protected] Founder and builder, Lovelyreader | Pubulous | Visualmarks | Docknote

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Developer  10+ years hands-on experience" !

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Consulting" Social Media" Finance" Real Estate" Digital Publishing"

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Founder" Lovelyreader" Pubulous" Visualmarks" Docknote"

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! FullstackRocks.com LATEST

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What is Loopback? - An open source project from StrongLoop" - Main contributor behind Node.js, Express and others" - A Node.js framework for creating APIs real quick" - With robust and well-thought out features built-in

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It’s good for? - API service and gateway" - Mobile backend and hybrid apps" - Web (sites and SPAs)" - Anything real-time

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What’s in the box? - A development framework" - A bunch of DevOP toolsets" - and a lot of wisdom packed in

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The Framework

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Create API endpoints quickly - Create schema in JSON and translate it to Model automagically" - Each model comes in with 10+ CRUD methods" - Methods become end points instantly

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{" "name": "user"," "base": "PersistedModel"," "trackChanges": true," "properties": {" "id": {" "id": true," "type": "string"" }," "title": "string"," "completed": {" "type": "boolean"," "default": false" }," "created": {" "type": "number""

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Highly customizable domain Models - before/after hook for implementing business logics" - Create new remote methods for end points easily

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ORM - Mongodb, MySql, Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle" ! - and a bunch of other DataSources" ! - Forked from JugglingDb" ! - Easy to use APIs and very efﬁcient" ! - Highly customizable" " " " - Support all kinds of relationships: hasMany, belongsTo...

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Cloud Storages - Uploading ﬁles to S3" - Amazon, Openstack, Rackspace, Azure" - Just like a normal dataSource which provides create/read/update/delete commands"

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Built-in API Explorer - Test APIs on the ﬂy" - Adjustable parameters" * http://goo.gl/nmj0u0

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Authentication - Built-in User model provides register, login, logout, forgot password and reset" - Complete ACL rules setting

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Role-based access control - Who has right to access what?" - Support dynamic $role deﬁnition too

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oAuth2 - Using Passport" - facebook/google/twitter/github " - and 100+ providers" * http://goo.gl/bmHMxO

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Sync - Stores data offline" - App continues to work offline" - Sync data when online" - Conflict resolution and 3-way merging" - Supports socket.io for real-time syncing" * http://goo.gl/plVBhr

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Studio API Composer - Editing models and datasources" - Generate models from db schemas" - Generate db schemas from models" * http://goo.gl/jODKSJ

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Push Notiﬁcation - Support iOS and Android" * http://goo.gl/9zRZZ6

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Web Socket - Coming feature" - Real time notiﬁcation when model changes

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Native SDK for iOS/Android/Angular * http://goo.gl/OW2TBf

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Leverage Express - Continue to use all middlewares" - Reuse your existing skills" - Build hybrid website and API end points in one" - Could use Reactjs as server-side templating engine (via express)

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DevOP Tools

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In the box - Debugger" - Build/Package" - Deploy" - Logging" - Monitoring" - Clustering

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Debugger - slc debug" " - Using node-inspector

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Build/Package - A standard way of packaging and building your apps" * http://goo.gl/5ghCIv

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Deploy - StrongLoop Process Manager (slc-pm)" - Works tightly with build/deploy tools" - Provides zero-downtime application updates" " " * http://goo.gl/aUeTp3" - Deployment best practices" * http://goo.gl/O1MDha

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Logging - Log to ﬁle, syslog, remote log, Splunk" - Using Winston or Bunyan" * http://goo.gl/aPlim9

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Clustering - Fully utilize all cores on the server" - View cluster status anytime" - Resizing clusters at runtime" * http://goo.gl/lF3ZKg

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Monitoring - Collecting metrics" - Diagnose memory leaks" - Proﬁle CPU consumption" - With web UI" - On-premises or hosted" * http://goo.gl/7F3miH

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Other Beneﬁts

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No Vendor Lock-in - Everything is open sourced" - Host on your own server

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Paid commerical support - When shit hits the fan, you know whom to ask help for" * http://goo.gl/ldeCDF

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Active response and community - google groups" * http://goo.gl/FEqhTL)" - github issues" * http://goo.gl/dXAUcM)

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The Bad

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- Still evolving very fast hence incomplete documentation and changing examples" - Took one month to get my ahead around it initially " - With professional guidance it shall take just 1 week to pick up

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When to use what?

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For quick and simple tasks - Koa and misc. middlewares" - You gotta know what you are doing when home brewing the whole stack though

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For Enterprise-grade API services and platform - Loopback" - Because it’s well thought out and got all ends covered

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For EC/Forum site - Express or Loopback" - Because it’s battle-tested

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Do not reinvent the wheels, especially ﬂaky ones!

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Side Notes

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Learn from the best - Excellent coding skills for node.js development" - Lot of test cases" - Learn best practices for build/package/deploy/ cluster/monitor node.js apps

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Stand on the shoulders of giants and get yourself a head start!

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The Holy Grail - The holy grail of fullstack development" - React + Flux for front-end apps" - Node.js and Loopback for backends" - Isomorphic javascript FTW" - Highly efﬁciency, shorter time to market, robust quality

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Loopback is way more than just a framework to help you build the application, it also provides a rich set of tools to help you debug, build, package, deploy, cluster and monitor the app.