Synopsis
Downloads a LoopBack example project from ourGitHub 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 toolwill skip the example-name prompt and run in a non-interactive mode.
See Examples and Tutorials for the list ofavailable examples.
Interactive Prompts
The tool will prompt you for:
- Name of the example to download. If the name had been supplied from thecommand-line, the prompt is skipped.
Output
The example project is downloaded to a new directory and its dependencies areinstalled. For example, when downloading todo
example, the tool stores thefiles under the newly created loopback4-example-todo
directory.