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9.9 8.9 L5 LoopBack VS Express

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9.8 9.9 L2 LoopBack VS Meteor

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9.8 8.0 L5 LoopBack VS Nuxt.js

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9.6 8.1 L4 LoopBack VS Koa

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fastify

9.6 9.6 LoopBack VS fastify

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9.4 6.3 L4 LoopBack VS SailsJS

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9.0 9.7 LoopBack VS verdaccio

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AdonisJs Framework

9.0 8.3 L4 LoopBack VS AdonisJs Framework

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8.9 6.9 L4 LoopBack VS Hapi

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8.8 7.6 L5 LoopBack VS Feathers

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8.5 0.0 L4 LoopBack VS Restify

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8.4 2.2 LoopBack VS Micro

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8.3 9.7 LoopBack VS Encore

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8.1 7.4 LoopBack VS TypeGraphQL

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8.1 9.5 LoopBack VS Quick Start

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MERN

7.9 0.0 L5 LoopBack VS MERN

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Moleculer

7.8 7.6 LoopBack VS Moleculer

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7.7 2.9 L2 LoopBack VS ThinkJS

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7.3 3.1 LoopBack VS Node.js framework

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7.3 9.1 L5 LoopBack VS Derby

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7.2 9.5 LoopBack VS NestJS REST API boilerplate

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7.1 5.6 L2 LoopBack VS seneca

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7.1 0.0 L4 LoopBack VS Nodal

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6.4 7.6 L3 LoopBack VS ActionHero

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6.3 8.2 LoopBack VS tinyhttp

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6.1 0.0 LoopBack VS Lad

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6.1 8.1 L5 LoopBack VS sqs-consumer

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Marble.js

5.9 2.4 LoopBack VS Marble.js

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5.9 7.3 LoopBack VS FoalTS

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5.6 0.0 L5 LoopBack VS Trails

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5.4 9.1 LoopBack VS modern-errors

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4.9 0.0 LoopBack VS Hemera

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Catberry

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2.8 0.0 L5 LoopBack VS Perk

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2.2 0.0 LoopBack VS Zeronode

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2.1 6.0 LoopBack VS QueryQL

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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.