With the Node.js API framework LoopBack you can easily provide REST APIs for your applications. In order to build web frontends LoopBack provides an AngularJS JavaScript SDK. Below is a sample appl...

The Node.js framework LoopBack supports authorization for models (business objects) via roles on both application level and object level. This is, for example, important in business applications wh...

LoopBack creates automatically REST APIs for custom models (business objects) that are persisted. While this is helpful to get started quickly, for example in proofs of concepts or first iterations...

The Node.js API framework LoopBack supports third-party logins to authenticate users and to link accounts. This article describes how to authenticate from LoopBack applications against the Single S...

Over the last weeks I had to pleasure to investigate most of the Watson services on Bluemix. Below is a series of articles in which I describe the different services, most of the times by providing...

The Node.js framework LoopBack supports multiple connectors for various data sources. Below is a sample how to use the Cloudant NoSQL database in Bluemix. Check out the sample code on GitHub. It s...

Recently I’ve developed samples with LoopBack which is a very powerful Node.js framework. Over the next days/weeks I’ve planned to blog about LoopBack in more detail, especially how it can be used ...

As for authentication there are various ways to handle authorization in Node.js applications on Bluemix. Below is an example how to use the Node module acl. With this module you can use roles for a...

With the Single Sign On service on Bluemix users can be authenticated against various directories, for example via SAML. A default set of pages is provided so that users can log on or change their ...

There are different ways how to do authentication in Node.js applications running on Bluemix, either via Bluemix services, third party offerings, open source libraries or self written code. Below i...