loopback-glue

Booting utility to glue multiple loopback projects together

To use the module:

1. Load loopback-glue in place of loopback-boot

   var glue = require('loopback-glue'); //var boot = require('loopback-boot');

2. Create an options object for glue. The option object inherits the loopback-boot option object. On top of the original option object we are adding a new attribute called subapps.

   The "subapps" attribute is an array of glue based loopback projects. Each element of the array should have the loopback project name as the key, followed by the value as the glue option flags.

   var options = {
     "appRootDir" : __dirname,
     "subapps" : [
       {
         "name-api" : {
           "loadModels" : true,
           "loadDatasources" : true
         }
       } , {
         "address-api" : {
           "loadModels" : true,
           "loadDatasources" : false
         }
       }
     ]
   };

3. Replace boot loading by the following code:

   // Bootstrap the application, configure models, datasources and middleware.
   // Sub-apps like REST API are mounted via boot scripts.
   glue(app, options, function(err,instructions) {
     if (err) throw err;
   
     // start the server if $ node server.js
     if (require.main === module)
       app.start();
     else {
       // in case its not the parent app, exporting instructions to load from parent
       app.glue = {'instructions' : instructions, glueOption : options};
     }
   
   });

Roadmap

• Improve documentation
• Code clean up
• Unit Test
• Loading models and datasources based on usage from model.json and datasources.json
• Test coverage

See Also

• Loopback
• Loopback-boot