Rapid API Development with LoopBack/StrongLoop

Rapid API Development with LoopBack/StrongLoop

Raymond Camden

Rabid API Development

Who am I?

Developer Advocate for IBM

StrongLoop, Bluemix, Cordova/PhoneGap, Node, and web stuff in general

Blogging at raymondcamden.com

Tweeting at @raymondcamden

https://unsplash.com/pjrvs

How I did web sites (old days)

How I did web sites (old days)Focused heavily on an app server


App server did everything (database access, generating HTML, etc)



Client-side was really limited




Ex:




Ex:

Client: "I need a list of cats"




Ex:


Server: "I'll ask the database for the list."




Ex:



Server: "I'll take that list and generate a lot of HTML to render it"




Ex:




Server: "I'll wrap that display in some site template with dynamic junk"




Ex:




Server: "I'll wrap that display in some site template with dynamic junk"

Server: "I'll return a big pile of HTML to you"

How I do web sites now...

How I do web sites now...The client doesn't suck anymore!


Mobile is everywhere - apps, apps, and more apps!



My server just responds to API calls




Ex:




Ex:

Client: "Give me a list of cats"




Ex:


Server: "Here is a list in raw JSON"




Ex:


Server: "Here is a list in raw JSON"

Client: "Thanks, you're awesome, I'll render it"

The Server in 2016

The Server in 2016

Smaller

The Server in 2016

Smaller

Simpler

The Server in 2016

Smaller

Simpler

Just an API provider

The Server in 2016

Smaller

Simpler

Just an API provider

Not some big machine I rent

"Typical" Setup (Then)

Apache

Adobe ColdFusion

MySQL

Minimal JavaScript on the client

"Typical" Setup (Now)

Node.js

Express

Cloudant/MongoDB/etc

JavaScript on the server, client, cloud, breakfast, etc

A confession...

Credit: https://flic.kr/p/9wXA3J

Express

Express

No boilerplate web server crap

Express

No boilerplate web server crap

Focused on rapidly building a web site/app

LoopBack

LoopBackOpen source framework designed for APIs

http://loopback.io


Rapid creation of Models and REST APIs

http://loopback.io



Simple ORM system for CRUD

http://loopback.io




Support for JavaScript apps (Angular)

http://loopback.io





Very detailed/configurable security policies

http://loopback.io





Very detailed/configurable security policies

loopback.io

http://loopback.io

StrongLoop

StrongLoopGraphical tool for working with LoopBack


Deployment


Deployment

Management


Deployment

Management

Monitoring


Deployment

Management

Monitoring

Debugging


Deployment

Management

Monitoring

Debugging

strongloop.com

Getting Started

Installation

Requires npm (Node Package Manager)

Install Node.js (nodejs.org)

npm install g strongloop

CLI: slc

Creating an Application


slc loopback


slc loopback

Follow the prompts


slc loopback

Follow the prompts

Define models


slc loopback

Follow the prompts

Define models

Run the application

Enter the StrongLoop


Runs on top of LoopBack



Does a heck of a lot more than I'm showing today



Does a heck of a lot more than I'm showing today

To be clear - this is optional

Bobby Tables

I should just put a cat picture here.

Then what?

Then what?Setup a datasource


Cloudant, DB2, Memory, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL Server



npm install loopback-connector-mongodb --save




Setup security




Setup security

Add custom methods




Setup security

Add custom methods

Unique stuff (/api/Cats?filter[where][friendly]=true vs /friendlyCats)




Setup security

Add custom methods


Customize how data is stored ("If friendly, change name to")




Setup security

Add custom methods


Customize how data is stored ("If friendly, change name to")

Build your client

Bobby Tables

I bet I could find a meme pic for this slide.

Stuff I didn't cover


Customize the heck out of it



File support



File support

Totally custom storage



File support


API-based model



File support


API-based model

All the performance/deployment/scaling/etc

More stuff I didn't cover


API Connect


API Connect

Node or Java


API Connect

Node or Java

API Creation, Management, Security, etc


API Connect

Node or Java

API Creation, Management, Security, etc

Available March 15

Wrap up

Zero to API in less than 5 minutes

REST compliant - if you hate the prototype, you can rebuild

https://docs.strongloop.com

Any questions?

You can email here: [email protected]

You can follow me here: @raymondcamden (all serious stuff, no cat pics, honest)

You can read my stuff here: www.raymondcamden.com (I won't lie - there's a few cat pics here)

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