- refactor logic of processing artifacts into their own classes
- introduce Container as the main class for bootstrapping and build a
registry of handlers during boot to organize them by a hierarchy
denoted by path
- adopt middleware like registration and invocation
- container.use(path, handler)
- container.run(context, done)
- allow more phases during boot
- boot is now asynchronous
Add a simple implementation of getRandomValues to the browser context
to get rid of the following warning:
[SECURITY] node-uuid: crypto not usable, falling back to insecure
Math.random()
When the middleware name (path) is in the format {module}#{filename},
loopback-boot resolves the path by trying multiple locations and
using the first one that exists:
- {module} and check the {filename} property of the exports
-> e.g. loopback.rest
- {module}/server/middleware/{filename}
-> e.g. loopback/server/middleware/rest
- {module}/middleware/{filename}
-> e.g. loopback/middleware/rest
Values in any other format will bypass this resolution algorithm and
they will be used in the original form:
- a full path in a module: loopback/server/middleware/rest
- a relative path: ./middleware/custom, ./custom, ../logger
- an absolute path: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/compression
Sample JSON:
{
"routes:before": {
"morgan": {
"params": ["dev"]
}
},
"routes": {
"loopback/server/middleware/rest": {
}
},
"subapps": {
"./adminer": {
},
}
}
The JSON file can be customized using the usual conventions:
- middleware.local.{js|json}
- middleware.{env}.{js|json}
It is also possible to mount the same middleware in the same phase
multiple times with different configuration.
Example config:
{
"auth": {
"oauth2": [
{
"params": "first"
},
{
"params": "second"
}
]
},
});
The new loopback project layout adds a concept of components like
'rest server' and 'isomorphic client', each component having its own set
of boot files. The name `app.json` is confusing, since it is configuring
a component, not the app (which is the whole project).
Split bootLoopBackApp into two steps:
- compile
- execute
Most of the changes are just shuffling the existing code around.
What has changed:
- `loopback.autoAttach()` is called after `models/*` are required.
The calls were made in the opposite order before this commit.
Modify loading of `appConfig` and `dataSourceConfig` to look for
the following files:
- app.json
- app.local.{js|json}
- app.{$env}.{js|json}
- datasources.json
- datasources.local.{js|json}
- datasources.{$env}.{js|json}
where $env is the value of `app.get('env')`, which usually defaults
to `process.env.NODE_ENV`.
The values in the additional files are applied to the config object,
overwritting any existing values. The new values must be value types
like String or Number; Object and Array are not supported.
Additional datasource config files cannot define new datasources,
only modify existing ones.
The commit includes refactoring of the config-loading code into
a standalone file.