cascon-2017

CASCON 2017 Workshop Tutorial

Overview

This is a tutorial for LoopBack 4 that will show you how to get started creating LoopBack 4 Applications. This will be presented at CASCON 2017. The application we'll be creating is a simple Diary application to write your daily thoughts but we'll get a tone analysis from Watson Tone Analyzer for each diary entry to understand your mood and to be able to search for entries by mood.

Pre-requisites

You should have the following packages dependencies install globally to follow along with this tutorial:

• Node 8.X.X (Installer)
• TypeScript 2.5 (you can install by running the following command after installing Node):

npm i -g typescript

Tutorial

The master branch represents the complete and functioning version of the tutorial. To run it you would just need to add a file called creds.ts as specified in step-05 branch.

You can follow along this tutorial step by step by switching between the different step branches.

The presentation used for the workshop is also available here as a PDF.

Step Branches

1. Step 1 - Project Setup
2. Step 2 - Hello World
3. Step 3 - Refactoring
4. Step 4 - Basic Diary Application
5. Step 5 - Making it Cognitive