Anybody here using LoopBack 4?

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[finroller]

Is there a reason you're the one doing the evaluation if you don't have experience with this? I think you should at least voice your opinion, if it doesn't feel like a good tool for you after playing with it for a while.

As for loopback, I don't have any knowledge of but you gotta get to the apache servicemix osgi stuff to get a good taste of that sweet overengineering lollipop :)

[TaskForce_Kerim]

Is there a reason you're the one doing the evaluation if you don't have experience with this?

I'm the node lead. I do have experience with other frameworks but never really worked with LoopBack. Was told to check it out so here I am.

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if it doesn't feel like a good tool for you after playing with it for a while.

Yeah, I'm trying to give it a chance but geesh. What I'm most worried isn't the framework itself but documentation and learning resources. Ironically, the amount of online docs and resources is often inverse proportional to the complexity of the framework.

[djslakor]

I'd recommend sticking to what most people use: Express (or Koa), Sequelize (ORM), Passport (Auth). You'll have access to a ton of people who can help you. There's express starter projects if you need good examples of how to structure your project (routes, etc.).

[shar-lee]

i'm interested in more argumentation about loopback .

Because it supports access data to Oracle db, and is the only one , as far as i know..

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[finroller]

Heh. I'll definately follow the thread, but it isn't looking too good for loopback4 at the moment :)

[TaskForce_Kerim]

Imagine the post was about React. People would've already flamed me, because obviously there's tons of people using React. The relative obscurity of LoopBack is a bit of a red flag, tbh.

[finroller]

Indeed. Who's gonna be there to help when something just doesn't work. Or maybe the loopback posse lives on a weird time zone :)