Monthly Milestone - April 2018

[dhmlau]

The goal for this month should be:

• finish off items for Developer Preview 2 release (high priority)
• work on spikes that help us to create backlog for the next release

Goals

Developer Preview 2 Items

• openapi-v3-spec module: add basic tests openapi-v3-types module: add basic tests #181
• Enhance Repository Mixin to provide a repository getter Enhance Repository Mixin to provide a repository getter  #745
• Inject repositories registered via app.repository() API Inject repositories registered via app.repository() API #744
• 🏃 Consistent file naming style Consistent file naming style #612
• [Docs] Sidebar reorganization [Docs] Sidebar reorganization #731 CLOSED as no longer irrelevant

Spikes

• 🏃 Juggler relation spike SLIPPED [SPIKE]Legacy Juggler - Providing repositories based on relations  #995

Stretch Goals

Spikes

• Weakly typed integration spike [Spike] Weakly typed integration with REST/SOAP service #1069
  - @raymondfeng has done spike feat: add integration for service-oriented backends #1119. Need a meeting to discuss the spike finding.
• Use Express / Koa for HTTP processing [Spike] Use Express / Koa for HTTP processing #1071
  - @raymondfeng has a spike PR [RFC] feat: use express/koa/... as the http framework #1082
  - need a meeting to discuss the spike finding, so that we can build the backlog.
• [SPIKE] Create @loopback/boot to support declarative JSON/YAML [SPIKE] Create @loopback/boot to support declarative JSON/YAML files #441
• Validation and type conversion at REST/Model/Database layer [Spike] Validation and type conversion at REST/Model/Database layer #1057
• [Spike] Express vs. Koa for HTTP processing [Spike] Express vs. Koa for HTTP processing #1255
• [CLI] Show list of all available commands in help [CLI] Show list of all available commands in help #934

Other PRs

• [CLI] Move away from using master to clone examples via lb4 example [CLI] Move away from using master to clone examples via lb4 example #1120
• [Docs] Local Site Scaffolding [Docs] Local Site Scaffolding #1232
  • This enabled testing @loopback/docs in LB4 as well.
• feat: upgrade to openapi3-ts@0.11.0 feat: upgrade to openapi3-ts@0.11.0 #1265
• chore: add a sandbox location to enable testing w/ source code chore: add a sandbox location to enable testing w/ source code #1252
• Introduce strongly-typed metadata key Introduce strongly-typed metadata key #1240
• refactor: move example packages to examples folder refactor: move example packages to examples folder #1231
• [RFC] refactor(docs): move apidocs to /docs [RFC] refactor(docs): move apidocs to /docs #1207
• feat(testlab): update sourceMappingURL when copying a JS file feat(testlab): update sourceMappingURL when copying a JS file #951
• chore: make the code compatible with node 10.0.0 chore: make the code compatible with node 10.0.0 #1281
• lb3 feat(loopback-datasource-juggler): add omit default embedded item flag for embedsMany relation EmbedsMany relation assigns default value to relation objects in response strongloop/loopback#2882
• Replace type definition being imported by repository-json-schema Replace type definition being imported by repository-json-schema #1132

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task

[dhmlau]

Removed Bring questions back to GitHub, use GG only for announcements #47 as part of the stretch goal for March milestone

[virkt25]

Removed App template generates MIT License file without prompt #1079 since it was done in March as a stretch goal.

[dhmlau]

@hacksparrow , I've added #1255 (coming out of the #1071 spike) as the stretch goal.

[b-admike]

We have reached the end of April. Closing this ticket.