Download examples

Synopsis

Downloads a LoopBack example project from our GitHub monorepo.

lb4 example [options] [<example-name>]

Options

Standard options

-h, --help

Print the generator’s options and usage.

--skip-cache

Do not remember prompt answers. Default is false.

--skip-install

Do not automatically install dependencies. Default is false.

-c, --config

JSON file name or value to configure options

--format

Format generated code using npm run lint:fix

For example,

lb4 app --config config.json
lb4 app --config {"name":"my-app"}
cat config.json | lb4 app --config stdin
lb4 app --config stdin < config.json
lb4 app --config stdin << EOF
> {"name":"my-app"}
> EOF

-y, --yes

Skip all confirmation prompts with default or provided value

Arguments

example-name - Optional name of the example to clone. If provided, the tool will skip the example-name prompt and run in a non-interactive mode.

See Examples and tutorials for the list of available examples.

Interactive Prompts

The tool will prompt you for:

• Name of the example to download. If the name had been supplied from the command-line, the prompt is skipped.

Output

The example project is downloaded to a new directory and its dependencies are installed. For example, when downloading todo example, the tool stores the files under the newly created loopback4-example-todo directory.