of the fantastic Node.js ecosystem, the team built on top of open source modules such as Express and made it incredibly simple to create REST APIs out of existing datasources and services.&quot;</p><p>&quot;The StrongLoop team&#x27;s bet on open APIs and Node.js was right. The project and community have grown significantly.&quot;</p><p>&quot;The StrongLoop team joined with IBM API Connect team in 2015 to better position LoopBack as a strategic open source project. LoopBack 4 is the second generation of the 