LoopBack 3 has reached end of life. We are no longer accepting pull requests or providing support for community users. The only exception is fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities provided as part of support for IBM API Connect customers. We urge all LoopBack 3 users to migrate their applications to LoopBack 4 as soon as possible. Learn more about LoopBack's long term support policy.

Getting started with LoopBack

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This tutorial will walk through the initial steps to create a basic LoopBack application. The application you’ll create is in the loopback-getting-started GitHub repository. To make it easy for you to pick up the tutorial at any point, there are tags for each step of the tutorial.

You can run through the steps to create the app and get a sense for some of the things LoopBack can do, or just skip to the one that interests you:

1. Create a simple API
2. Use API Explorer
3. Connect your API to a data source
4. Extend your API
5. Add a static web page
6. Add a custom Express route