Sails.js (or Sails) is a

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(MVC) web application framework developed atop the Node.js environment, released as

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under the

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. It is designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js

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s and APIs. Emulating the MVC architecture of other frameworks, like

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, it offers similar pattern and familiarity, reducing the cognitive burden when switching between other frameworks/languages.

Features

Sails.js offers a host of features and attributes. It is built on Node.js and

Express.js Express.js, or simply Express, is a back end web application framework for building RESTful APIs with Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It has been ...

, enabling applications to be made with 100% JavaScript. This includes models, views, controllers, configuration files, and adapters (e.g., database). Like Ruby on Rails, Sails.js provides an object-relational mapping interface using Waterline.js, which abstracts the database interaction. This enables a uniform API regardless of the underlying database being used. A number of other packages are included to enable fast auto-generated REST APIs,

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s by default using Socket.io; and compatibility features making it front-end agnostic so that many tools and frameworks (

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, iOS, etc.) are supported.

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