Monthly Milestone - February 2020 💝 🔆 ☕️

[dhmlau]

Overview

• continue to focus on the migration guide: general runtime and authentication+authorization

Goals

• Migration guide between LB3 and LB4 MVP Migration guide between LB3 to LB4 [MVP] #453

  • 🏃How to migrate CRUD Operation Hooks How to migrate CRUD Operation Hooks #3952
  • 🏃How to migrate model mixins How to migrate model mixins #3951
  • Spike: how to import LB3 models extending a custom base model Spike: how to import LB3 models extending a custom base model #3813
  • 🏃 [migration/auth] Migrate
    https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-example-access-control to LB4
    [migration/auth] Migrate https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-example-access-control to LB4 #4520

• Tooling around migration

  • 🏃LB3 model import: preserve connector-specific metadata in property
    definitions LB3 model import: preserve connector-specific metadata in property definitions #3810

• Create models & REST APIs dynamically at runtime

  • 🏃Dynamic binding/rebinding of controllers after app start Dynamic binding/rebinding of controllers after app start #433

• Shopping app web site

  • Shopping App Website: Installation/setup documentation
    Shopping App Website: Installation/setup documentation loopback4-example-shopping#477

• Miscellaneous

  • API Explorer ignores filter options where, fields, and order API Explorer ignores filter options where, fields, and order #2208
  • npm test hangs infinitly on windows npm test hangs infinitly on windows #4425
  • Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler
    Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler loopback-connector-db2#133
  • Add CrudRestApiBuilder to @loopback/rest-crud Add CrudRestApiBuilder to @loopback/rest-crud #3737
  • Column names in lowercase using lb4 discover method - SQL
    connector Column names in lowercase using lb4 discover method - SQL connector #3343

• PR reviews:

  • feat: adds @deprecated convenience decorator feat: adds @deprecated convenience decorator #4415
  • feat: adds utility launch for debugging a single test file feat: adds utility launch for debugging a single test file #4432
  • Preserve custom type of auto-generated id property Preserve custom type of auto-generated id property #4270
  • feat(extension-logging): add integration with winston and fluentd
    logging feat(extension-logging): add integration with winston and fluentd logging #4117

Stretch Goals

• CI

  • 🏃 [CI] Postgresql downstream tests failed
    [CI] Postgresql downstream tests failed loopback-datasource-juggler#1816
  • [DashDB] Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler
    Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler loopback-connector-dashdb#79

• Bug fixes

  • 🏃 Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL #4372
  • Log extension is not printing any logs Log extension is not printing any logs #2173 Out of scope for Q1

• Migration guide between LB3 and LB4 MVP Migration guide between LB3 to LB4 [MVP] #453

  • Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4
    Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4 #3935
  • Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 #3956

• APIC Integration APIConnect / LoopBack 4 integration #4516

  • [Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect
    [Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect  #4498 Out of scope for Feb. After discussion with team and APIC team, we may not need this.

Looking for community contributions

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

• Add bearer auth scheme as the default security scheme Add bearer auth scheme as the default security scheme #4386
• 🏃 Add OpenAPI enhancer service in @loopback/rest Add OpenAPI enhancer service in @loopback/rest #4380
• Sugar decorators for Filter and Where parameters Sugar decorators for Filter and Where parameters #1749
• Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) #3607

[dhmlau]

Moved the slipped tasks to March. Closing Feb milestone. Thanks.