The loopback:swagger converter is nice, and this tool makes it a bit nicer:

* batch conversion (without interaction needed)
* copy relations,acl etc defined in swagger

Basically it allows you to do a swagger/loopback syntax-mashup in 1 jsonfile.
This allows you to model your api's using one model file.
(instead of slapping your head around files)

Usage

npm install -g loopback-swagger-cli

then extend your swagger file with strongloop syntax like so:

{
...
"pet": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id",
"name"
],
"dataSource": "db", <--
"public":true, <--
"relations": { <--
"owner": { <-- see strongloop
"type": "belongsTo", <-- model jsondocs for
"model": "owner", <-- fields / syntax
"foreignKey": "" <--
} <--
},
...

and then

$ slc loopback:swagger swagger.json # only needed once (see note)
$ loopback-swagger-cli swagger.json server/models server/model-config.json
writing /server/models/owner.json
writing /server/models/pet.json
writing /server/model-config.json

> NOTE: this cli-tool will leave the .js files alone, however use the loopback:swagger cmd
to generate them otherwise loopback will complain.

Example repo

here's an example of a loopback api served from one coffeescript-jsonfile:

https://github.com/coderofsalvation/loopback-swagger-cli-example