Monthly Milestone - March 2020 👾⏳🐨

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Overview

• Migration guide: Stop starting, start finishing!

Goals

• [ ] Migration guide https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/3935

  General runtime

  • [x] Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 #3956 (from Feb milestone)
  • [ ] 🚶Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4

    3935 (from Feb milestone)

  Authentication & Authorization

  • [x] [migration/auth] Create a guide to describe how to migrate LB3 User based authentication to LB4 #4521
  • [ ] 🏃 How to migrate apps using loopback-component-passport #3958
  • [x] ~[migration/auth] Describe how to simulate ACLs with LB4 authorization

    4522 .~ [Only shopping app related changes left. Moved to Q2]

• [x] Miscellaneous

  • [x] Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL #4372
  • [x] How to build models, repositories and controllers dynamically at runtime

    4296

  • [x] LB3 is in Maintenance LTS now! strongloop/loopback#4306
  • [x] Extract the jwt authentication to a local component for the auth migration example app #4753

Stretch Goals

• [ ] Internal Tooling

  • [ ] Switch contribution method from CLA to DCO #2292

• Spikes

  • [ ] Spike: robust handling of ObjectID type for MongoDB #3456

• [x] Bugs

  • [x] Broken anchor link https://github.com/strongloop/loopback.io/issues/907
  • [x] How to define a model @property that allows any scalar value? #4255
  • [x] ID automatically generated by PostgreSQL becomes undefined #4751
  • [x] Identifier gets discarded after running migration #4744

Looking for community contributions

Community contributors: Want to contribute but don't know where to start? Here is our wish list for this month:

• [ ] :running: [Spike] How to migrate Angular 1.x and 2+ LB3 client #4610
• [ ] Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) #3607
• [ ] Complex OpenAPI Validations with @property #1624
• [ ] default values added for new required columns when running autoupdate() https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-postgresql/pull/418

[agnes512]

Closing as done