Merge 56c8acd into 1b5b66a

docs/site/Booting-an-Application.md

@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ package (with custom booters).
 ## BootMixin
 
 Boot functionality can be added to a LoopBack 4 Application by mixing it with
-the `BootMixin`. The Mixin adds the `BootComponent` to your Application as well
-as convenience methods such as `app.boot()` and `app.booters()`. The Mixin also
-allows Components to set the property `booters` as an Array of `Booters`. They
-will be bound to the Application and called by the `Bootstrapper`.
+the `BootMixin`
+[mixin](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html). This mixin
+adds the `BootComponent` to your Application as well as convenience methods such
+as `app.boot()` and `app.booters()`. The Mixin also allows Components to set the
+property `booters` as an Array of `Booters`. They will be bound to the
+Application and called by the `Bootstrapper`.
 
 Since this is a convention-based Bootstrapper, it is important to set a
 `projectRoot`, as all other artifact paths will be resolved relative to this

docs/site/Creating-components.md

@@ -31,6 +31,23 @@ export class MyComponent implements Component {
 }
 ```
 
+You can inject anything to from the context and access them from a component. In
+the following example the REST server instance is made available in the
+component via dependency injection.
+
+```ts
+import {Component, CoreBindings} from '@loopback/core';
+import {RestApplication} from '@loopback/rest';
+export class MyComponent implements Component {
+  constructor(
+    @inject(CoreBindings.APPLICATION_INSTANCE)
+    private application: RestApplication,
+  ) {
+    // The rest server instance can be accessed from this component
+  }
+}
+```
+
 When a component is mounted to an application, a new instance of the component
 class is created and then:
 

docs/site/Server.md

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Hosting the API Explorer at an external URL has a few downsides, for example a
 working internet connection is required to explore the API. As a recommended
 alternative, LoopBack comes with an extension that provides a self-hosted
 Explorer UI. Please refer to
-[Self-hosted REST API Explorer](./Self-hosted-rest-api-explorer.md) for more
+[Self-hosted REST API Explorer](Self-hosted-rest-api-explorer.md) for more
 details.
 
 ### Enable HTTPS