Extension Examples, Tutorials, Docs

[ritch]

• Design notes for LBNext #523 We need a brief architectural guide explaining high-level ideas to extension developers, few diagrams to visualize the concepts (Raymond).

• A blog post about extension development #524 A blog post (stakeholders: Raymond, Kevin, Tetsuo,... owner: Tetsuo). Promote the issue created by Kevin (call for extensions).

• An extension starter project #525 loopback-next-hello-extension - a github project people can git clone and start developing a new extension (TV).

[bajtos]

We need to make sure the authentication package can be used as a regular Component, also as a role model for component developers.

[dhmlau]

Per our latest discussion, what we need in this tutorial are:

• what is an extension
• why build extension

Writing component wiki page could be a good starting point but it's not complete

[dhmlau]

@raymondfeng, assigning this to you as you'll be driving this. Thanks!