Installing LoopBack and Create an App - 01

• LoopBack is highly extensible, open-source Node.js framework based on Express that enables you to quickly create APIs and microservices composed from the backend system such as database and SOAP or REST services.
• Here I am going to explain the method of installing LoopBack and Create App.

Step- 01

• First, you have to confirm that you were already installed node.
• For that, you have to run npm -v in your terminal.

• Here I have confirmed that. My machine has node (version 6.4.1)

Step- 02

• Then, type npm install -g loopback-cli in your terminal and run the command.

• Yeah, LoopBack is installing now.

Step- 03

• After finish installation of LoopBack, Create a new folder into the C drive as you wish. Here I have created as Js Projects.

Step- 04(Creating hello-loop App)

• Then, In your terminal go to the Js Project folder and type lb and run the command.

• After that, The generator guides you through creating your application. Enter and Select the values highlighted in green.

• After finish these all steps, you can check your Js Projects folder whether the application created or not.

• Yeah, here hello-loop application has created into the Js Projects folder.

Step- 05(Creating a person model into the hello-loop app)

• After creating the hello-loop app, in your terminal go to the hello-loop app and run the lb model command.

• After that, The generator guides you through creating your model. Enter the values highlighted in green. To accept the default, just press Enter.

• Then, go to the hello-loop application folder and check the directory hello-loop/common/model

• Yeah, person model has been successfully added into our hello-loop app.

Step- 06(Add some properties to our model)

• Here I am going to add the name and age as property.
• Adding name property.

• Adding age property.

• Press Enter when prompted for a property name to finish up and create the model.

Step- 07(Run the application)

• To run the application, run the node . command in your terminal.
• You will get like this,

• Load http://localhost:3000/explorer to see the built-in API Explorer.

• Yeah, here we got our hello-loop application. Congratulations.

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