Monthly Milestone - April 2020 💪😷🐣

[dhmlau]

Overview

With COVID-19 impacting the maintainers at different levels, we will be committing less story points to give us more flexibility.

The goals for this month would be to:

• Aim at finish the Migration guide epic except for the migrate LB3 components related tasks.

Goals

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

  • Migration Guide: Request-response cycle Migration Guide: Request-response cycle #4836
  • docs: migrate loopback-example-passport repo as lb4 example docs: migrate loopback-example-passport repo as lb4 example #4899
  • Migration Guide: Boot up Migration Guide: Boot up #4838
  • Migration Guide: Custom validation Migration Guide: Custom validation #4837
  • 🏃 Spike: How to migrate LB3 components Spike: How to migrate LB3 components #4099
  • How to map LB3 CLI commands to LB4 CLI How to map LB3 CLI commands to LB4 CLI #3953
  • 🏃Spike: How to migrate apps using loopback-component-oauth2 [Spike] How to migrate apps using loopback-component-oauth2 #3959 issue no longer applicable

• APIC/LB integration

  • [Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect [Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect  #4498

• Documentation

  • Docs: Add "Working with Data" section Docs: Add "Working with Data" section  #2527

• Miscellaneous

  • Extract the jwt authentication to an extension module Extract the jwt authentication to an extension module #4903

• PR reviews

  • feat(repository): hasManyThrough [WIP] feat(repository): hasManyThrough #4438
  • Add tsdoc package documentation Add tsdoc package documentation #4711
  • feat(rest): add openapi schema consolidation feat(rest): add openapi schema consolidation #4365

Stretch goals

• Migration guide

  • Spike: how to run LB3 tests from LB4 when LB3 is mounted on the LB4 app Spike: how to run LB3 tests from LB4 when LB3 is mounted on the LB4 app #5004

• Docs

  • Docs: how to use OpenAPI connector Docs: how to use OpenAPI connector #4488

• LB4 adoption

  • 🏃Blog on what LB can offer on top of Express Blog on what LB can offer on top of Express #4852

• APIC/LB integration

  • [Blog] Managing your APIs: From LoopBack to IBM API Connect [Blog] Managing your APIs: From LoopBack to IBM API Connect #4901

• Miscellaneous

  • Custom visual style of REST API Explorer Custom visual style of REST API Explorer #2023
  • Spike: robust handling of ObjectID type for MongoDB Spike: robust handling of ObjectID type for MongoDB #3456
  • 🏃Enable TypeScript Project References Enable TypeScript Project References #2609

Looking for community contributions

• OpenAPI related

  • Complex OpenAPI Validations with @Property Complex OpenAPI Validations with @property #1624
  • 🏃 Add bearer auth scheme as the default security scheme Add bearer auth scheme as the default security scheme #4386
  • OpenAPI schema generation and model inheritance OpenAPI schema generation and model inheritance #3293

• Miscellaneous

  • default values added for new required columns when running
    autoupdate()
    default values added for new required columns when running autoupdate() loopback-connector-postgresql#418
  • Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID
    values) Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) #3607
  • 🏃 [Spike] How to migrate Angular 1.x and 2+ LB3 client [Spike] How to migrate Angular 1.x and 2+ LB3 client #4610
  • 🏃 Document how to send emails in LB4 Document how to send emails in LB4 #1979

[agnes512]

Closing as done