Monthly Milestone - March 2020 👾⏳🐨

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Overview

• Migration guide: Stop starting, start finishing!

Goals

• Migration guide Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4 #3935

  General runtime

  • Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 #3956 (from Feb
    milestone)
  • 🚶Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4
    Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4 #3935 (from Feb milestone)

  Authentication & Authorization

  • [migration/auth] Create a guide to describe how to migrate LB3 User
    based authentication to LB4 [migration/auth] Create a guide to describe how to migrate LB3 User based authentication to LB4 #4521
  • 🏃 How to migrate apps using loopback-component-passport How to migrate apps using loopback-component-passport #3958
  • [migration/auth] Describe how to simulate ACLs with LB4 authorization
    Refactor Shopping Example: simulate ACLs with LB4 authorization #4522 . [Only shopping app related changes left. Moved to Q2]

• Miscellaneous

  • Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL #4372
  • How to build models, repositories and controllers dynamically at runtime
    How to build models, repositories and controllers dynamically at runtime #4296
  • LB3 is in Maintenance LTS now! Maintenance LTS strongloop/loopback#4306
  • Extract the jwt authentication to a local component for the auth migration example app Extract the jwt authentication to a local component for the auth migration example app #4753

Stretch Goals

• Internal Tooling

  • Switch contribution method from CLA to DCO Switch contribution method from CLA to DCO #2292

• Spikes

  • Spike: robust handling of ObjectID type for MongoDB Spike: robust handling of ObjectID type for MongoDB #3456

• Bugs

  • Broken anchor link Broken anchor link loopback.io#907
  • How to define a model @Property that allows any scalar value? How to define a model @property that allows any scalar value? #4255
  • ID automatically generated by PostgreSQL becomes undefined ID automatically generated by PostgreSQL becomes undefined #4751
  • Identifier gets discarded after running migration Identifier gets discarded after running migration  #4744

Looking for community contributions

Community contributors: Want to contribute but don't know where to start? Here
is our wish list for this month:

• 🏃 [Spike] How to migrate Angular 1.x and 2+ LB3 client [Spike] How to migrate Angular 1.x and 2+ LB3 client #4610
• Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID
  values) Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) #3607
• Complex OpenAPI Validations with @Property Complex OpenAPI Validations with @property #1624
• default values added for new required columns when running autoupdate() default values added for new required columns when running autoupdate() loopback-connector-postgresql#418

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Closing as done