Monthly Milestone - August 2018 🍉⛱

[bajtos]

August Milestone

General themes:

• Work on p1 stories that slipped from DP3 release
• Fix bugs reported by the community
• Start working on 4.0 GA stories

LB 4.x

Relations

• 🏃 BelongsTo relation [Relation] Support BelongsTo relation #1361 => PR feat(repository): introduce resolver and hasMany key inferrence with belongsTo decorator AND add belongsTo repository #1618
• (Accessibility) HasMany Relation Image [Accessibility] HasMany Relation Image #1532 => PR docs: fix hasMany diagram L&F #1577

LB4 web site

• Getting Started page LB4 website: Getting Started page strongloop/v4.loopback.io#22 => PR Adding Getting Started page strongloop/v4.loopback.io#29

Demo Scenarios

• User Profile Component Demo scenario: User Profile Component #1480 => https://github.com/strongloop/loopback4-example-shopping

Performance

• Spike: performance benchmark [Spike] Performance benchmark  #534 => PR feat: add two simple benchmarks #1583

Cloud Native

• Spike: Deploy LB4 applications to IBM Cloud [Spike] Deploy LB4 applications to IBM Cloud #1446 => PR [WIP] Spike: todo example on IBM Cloud [DO NOT MERGE] #1574

Other

• Bug: The error response for a request with malformed JSON body provides too little information The error response for a request with malformed JSON body provides too little information #1434 => PR fix(rest): pass a better detailed error message into the response body #1598
• CLI: lb4 example should install dependencies [CLI] lb4 example should install dependencies #1555 => PR fix(cli): install dependencies for cloned examples #1585
• CASCON poster proposal (internal) https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/384
• NodeSummit Reflection Blog => PR strongloop/strongloop.com#148

Bugs/Features reported by our community

• REST: DELETE with invalid ID is successful [REST] DELETE with invalid ID is successful #1472 => PR feat: default 404 for delete request to non-existent resource #1621
• 🏃 Incorrect response codes for invalid HTTP calls Incorrect response codes for invalid HTTP calls #1469 => PR fix: send 404 for findById(), if resource is not found #1617
• Docs: Update Why Not Express section in Crafting LoopBack 4 [Docs] Update Why Not Express section in Crafting LoopBack 4 #1538 => PR docs: explain express in crafting loopback 4 #1630
• 🏃 Unable to Explore API Unable to Explore API (generated OpenAPI spec is not valid) #1531 => PR feat(openapi-v3): responses decorator #1655
• Improperly Inserting Array Properties Into MongoDB Improperly Inserting Array Properties Into MongoDB #1508 => PR Juggler array #1570
• compile error in generated model ts file when using lb4 model compile error in generated model ts file when using lb4 model #1562 => PR fix(cli): change model template to properly render array types #1564
• Resolving constructor arguments for derived class includes bound arguments from base classes Resolving constructor arguments for derived class includes bound arguments from base classes #1565 => PR fix(context): check constructor/method override for @inject #1596

LB 3.x

• Set up ibmdb instance for CI in the ibmdb connectors https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/383
• Update LICENSE from IPAL to MIT license https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/382
• Regression: LazyConnect MySQL Datasources Never Connect after update to v3.21.0, LazyConnect MySQL Datasources Never Connect after update to v3.21.0 loopback-datasource-juggler#1592
• Update our LTS policy to follow Module LTS policy
  • doc changes - Update LTS policy to adhere to Module LTS policy loopback.io#715 and LTS: rename LTS to Active LTS to avoid confusion loopback.io#720
  • a blog post

Interrupts

• LB 2/3 Interrupt. AccessToken API (if exposed) allows anyone to create a Token => PR fix: accessToken create default acl strongloop/loopback#3964, fix: accessToken create default acl strongloop/loopback#3965, docs: accesstoken security advisory loopback.io#725
  • Need to add CVSS Score to Advisory once available
• $where and Javascript Server-side Code Injection $where and Javascript Server-side Code Injection loopback-connector-mongodb#403
  • Need to add CVSS Score to Advisory once available

Stretch Goals

LB4 web site

• Add a static site generator to reuse header and footer adding a static site generator to reuse header and footer strongloop/v4.loopback.io#14

Demo scenarios

• Demo scenario: order history component Demo scenario: order history component #1483

Integration with REST / SOAP services

• Sugar API for registering services + automated registration via boot Sugar API for registering services + automated registration via boot #1439

Extension infrastructure

• Spike: Allow extensions to contribute custom booters [Spike] Allow extensions to contribute custom booters #1461

July Stretch Goals Started but not finished.

• PersistedModel.destroyAll has very dangerous behaviour if the filter is not passed in correctly. PersistedModel.destroyAll has very dangerous behaviour if the filter is not passed in correctly. strongloop/loopback#3094
• Upgrade yeoman-generator to latest Upgrade yeoman-generator to latest strongloop/generator-loopback#355

Legend of annotations

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task

[jannyHou]

hi @dhmlau @virkt25 there is a LB3 task in progress from last month(stretch goal): strongloop/generator-loopback#355, it may take 1-2 weeks, can we also add it in the August milestone? At least in the stretch goal...thanks.

[virkt25]

Closing this as done.

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Past / Expected Average: 65
Committed Points (not including stretch goals): 86
Completed Points (including stretch): 73
Slipped Tasks: 3
Number of interrupts completed: 4 (NodeSummit Blog, 2 Security Issues, SOAP connector issues)
Stretch Goals Completed: 2