Comment by Peter Scheler on "Can someone please explain me what exactly LoopBack is?"

Strongloop is the name of the company and a tool collection for Loopback (including the scaffolding tool and the PM).

Loopback is a big webserver and REST/API framework with a big ecosystem around the actual framework (ProcessManager, GUI, ORM). It brings a lot "ready to use". Like autorization, authentification and usermodels.

It's only backend. The frontend is still yours.

I tried it but actualy don't use it. The docs and the tutorial within them helped me a lot to get started.

Do you know where to save the server.js file and how should i deploy it ??? if i hit slc run will the server get hosted ???

Just like it is on the package.json. The server.js file is located under ./server/server.js. I have no experience with the deploy of Loopback but it should be explaint in the docs. slc run will start the server, slc deploy deploys it.

Thanks @lichtjaeger for ur help !!! when i was adding a sample datasource MongoDb which i have on my mlab.com account using strong-studio though the connection was successful i cant create my models when i right click the datasource i can find only the delete option . can you suggest me in this ??? by the way i was using ubuntu 14 terminal ..

Please use the docs.

@lichtjaeger Why you don't use it anymore ? Sounds like a lot out of the box already !!!

I prefer more control and implementation over configuration.

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