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What is LoopBack? - Node.js Tutorial
From the course: Building APIs with LoopBack
What is LoopBack?
- [Instructor] Let's begin by quickly talking about what LoopBack is at a high level. It's central and most important function is building APIs. It does this with a 100% open source framework built on Node.js. To drive these APIs, LoopBack has a simple ORM, or Object Relational Mapping system for handling create, read, update, and delete operations, or CRUD for short. If that doesn't make sense, think about it like this, an ORM system basically extracts away the code needed to work with persistent systems like MySQL or Mongo. If you've ever worked with a database, SQL or no SQL, you know that there are basic commands used to work with data. LoopBack simply says, I'll handle that for you. This allows for CRUD operations to be written for you. CRUD covers all the operations you need to manage data. There's also a built in powerful search system as well. All of this is built on top of Express, an extremely popular Node.js framework for building web apps. You don't need to know Express in…
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