Download examples

Synopsis

Downloads a LoopBack example project from our GitHub monorepo.

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

Options

{% include_relative includes/CLI-std-options.md %}

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.