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9.9 9.9 LoopBack VS Nest

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9.8 7.9 L5 LoopBack VS Nuxt.js

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9.8 9.8 L2 LoopBack VS Meteor

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9.7 6.2 L4 LoopBack VS Koa

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9.5 9.8 LoopBack VS fastify

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9.4 6.5 L4 LoopBack VS SailsJS

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9.3 7.1 LoopBack VS egg

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9.0 9.5 LoopBack VS verdaccio

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9.0 7.3 L4 LoopBack VS Hapi

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Feathers

8.9 9.4 L5 LoopBack VS Feathers

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AdonisJs Framework

8.8 8.8 L4 LoopBack VS AdonisJs Framework

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8.6 4.9 L4 LoopBack VS Restify

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8.5 6.6 LoopBack VS Micro

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8.2 6.0 LoopBack VS TypeGraphQL

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8.0 0.0 L5 LoopBack VS MERN

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7.9 9.9 LoopBack VS Quick Start

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ThinkJS

7.8 0.0 L2 LoopBack VS ThinkJS

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7.7 9.1 LoopBack VS Moleculer

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7.4 4.4 L5 LoopBack VS Derby

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7.4 2.4 LoopBack VS Node.js framework

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7.3 0.0 L4 LoopBack VS Nodal

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7.1 7.6 L2 LoopBack VS seneca

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6.4 9.2 L3 LoopBack VS ActionHero

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6.1 6.7 LoopBack VS tinyhttp

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6.1 3.0 LoopBack VS Lad

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5.9 4.6 LoopBack VS Marble.js

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5.8 9.9 LoopBack VS FoalTS

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4.9 2.2 LoopBack VS Hemera

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4.8 1.0 L4 LoopBack VS Catberry

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4.7 0.0 LoopBack VS elm

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4.6 8.6 LoopBack VS NestJS REST API boilerplate

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4.6 0.0 L4 LoopBack VS dawson-cli

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4.2 0.0 LoopBack VS AdonisJs Application

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2.1 0.0 L5 LoopBack VS Restberry

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2.1 0.0 LoopBack VS Zeronode

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1.8 2.9 LoopBack VS QueryQL

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1.7 0.0 LoopBack VS express-version-route

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1.2 0.0 LoopBack VS FortJs

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1.2 0.0 LoopBack VS khalis

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0.8 0.0 LoopBack VS Coher3nTS Project

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0.6 0.0 LoopBack VS @Sugoi/Server

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README

LoopBack makes it easy to build modern applications that require complex integrations.

Fast, small, powerful, extensible core
Generate real APIs with a single command
Define your data and endpoints with OpenAPI
No maintenance of generated code

Status: General Availability

LoopBack 4 GA (General Availability) has been released in October 2018, read more in the announcement post.

The documentation website is https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/.

Learn about the latest and greatest features and technologies in LoopBack 4 by using it for your next project. Start by having a look at Getting Started.

Check the API documentation for all the API usages in each package.

Long Term Support

We don't provide any LTS version for LoopBack 4 yet. Please join the discussion in loopback-next#4398 if you are interested in a version that's less frequently changed.

We are providing Maintenance support for LoopBack 3 until December 2020.

Version	Status	Published	EOL
LoopBack 4	Current	Oct 2018	Apr 2025 (minimum)
LoopBack 3	End-of-Life	Dec 2016	Dec 2020
LoopBack 2	End-of-Life	Jul 2014	Apr 2019

Please refer to our Long Term Support Policy for more details.

Installation

Make sure you have the following installed:

Package	Version/-s	Link	Note
Node.js	Maintenance LTS (v14) Active LTS (v16) Current (v17 & v18)	https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/	The use of the current version for production is not recommended.

Install LoopBack 4 CLI to help create new projects as follows:

npm i -g @loopback/cli

To create your first LoopBack 4 application, see Getting Started.

Documentation

Contributing

See the following resources to get you started:

[Contributing Guidelines](./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
[Monorepo overview](./docs/site/MONOREPO.md)
[Developing LoopBack](./docs/site/DEVELOPING.md)

You can join the team by posting a comment to issue #110.

Security

If you think you have discovered a new security issue with any LoopBack package, please do not report it on GitHub. Instead, send an email to [email protected] with a full description and steps to reproduce.

See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) for more details.