SailsJS is a very customizable MVC NodeJS framework that allows you to build Node apps in a matter of days! It is built on top of ExpressJS framework.
What is Node.js?
“Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.” – nodejs.org
What is ExpressJS?
“Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.” – expressjs.com
Sails has a lot of awesome features such as:
- All Javascript code, unlike other MVC web frameworks!
- You can use any database you want, for example MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, as well as the local disk
- Its comes with Powerful associations to create relational models making data modeling more practical (sailsjs beta version only)
- Auto generated REST APIs, which is one of the best features. All you have to do is run “sails generate api apiName” and your CRUD RESTful is ready!
- Support of WebSockets
For the full features, check out their website
For a demo on how to create a sailsjs app, check the following Youtube videos.
Into to Sails
Creating a restful json api in less than 15 seconds
SailsJS Links:
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