RFC: Do we need Installation page in docs?

[dhmlau]

In the official documentation, we have an installation page: http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Installation.html. I'm not sure whether we need the section for Adding LoopBack 4 to an existing project, because we highly recommend users to scaffold a LB4 app using CLI.

I have 2 proposals:

Option 1

• Remove the installation page completely
• the prerequisite of installing Node already exists in Getting Started page.

Option 2

• Keep the installation page
• Remove Adding LoopBack 4 to an existing project section
• Move Install LoopBack 4 CLI instruction from Getting Started to Installation page

related to: #988

[kjdelisle]

Option 1 👍

[virkt25]

+1 for Option 1

[jannyHou]

+1 for Option 1:
restrict all issues open against the template generated by our cli, we may not want to triage and debug for any random apps....

[raymondfeng]

+1 for Option 1. In http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Getting-started.html, we probably should recommend to use a tool like nvm for Node.js installation.

[virkt25]

I don't think we need to recommend nvm because we require Node 8 anyways ... and if a user has a need to use multiple versions on their machine I'm sure they would've come across nvm or one of the other solutions. If we get questions about it, then it might be worth adding it to a FAQ / something but Getting Started should be as simple as possible.

[dhmlau]

@bajtos, thoughts?