This module is in Active LTS mode, new features are no longer accepted.
(See Module Long Term Support Policy below.)

LoopBack 3 users looking for new features are encouraged to upgrade to LoopBack 4. Refer to loopback-next#1849 for more information on how to upgrade.

A convention-based bootstrapper for LoopBack applications.

For full documentation, see the official StrongLoop documentation: Defining boot scripts and Creating a LoopBack application.

The loopback-boot module initializes (bootstraps) a LoopBack application. Specifically, it:

• Configures data-sources.
• Defines custom models
• Configures models and attaches models to data-sources.
• Configures application settings
• Runs additional boot scripts, so you can put custom setup code in multiple small files instead of in the main application file.

For more information, see Defining boot scripts.

The version range 1.x is backwards compatible with app.boot provided by LoopBack 1.x versions and the project layout scaffolded by slc lb project up to slc version 2.5.

The version range 2.x supports the new project layout as scaffolded by yo loopback.

This document describes the configuration conventions of the 2.x versions.

npm install loopback-boot

var loopback = require('loopback');
var boot = require('loopback-boot');

var app = loopback();
boot(app, __dirname);

app.use(loopback.rest());
app.listen();

See API docs for complete API reference.

This module adopts the Module Long Term Support (LTS) policy, with the following End Of Life (EOL) dates:

Learn more about our LTS plan in docs.

This module is provided under dual MIT/StrongLoop license. See LICENSE for details.