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What is Sails.js?

Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.
Sails.js is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Sails.js is an open source tool with 22.8K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sails.js's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Sails.js?

Companies
82 companies reportedly use Sails.js in their tech stacks, including Tutor Platform, Redox Engine, and Brainhub.

Developers
224 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sails.js.

Sails.js Integrations

Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ExpressJS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sails.js. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Sails.js.
Pros of Sails.js
49
Data-driven apis
47
Waterline ORM
37
Mvc
32
Easy rest
25
Real-time
21
Open source
19
Service-oriented architecture
18
Scalable
10
Convension over configuration
9
Rails-like asset pipeline
9
Node machines and machinepacks
7
Easy route/controller generation
6
Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs
3
CLI for scaffolding project pieces
3
WebSocket support
1
Supportive community
Decisions about Sails.js

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Sails.js in their tech stack.

Needs advice
on
LoopBackLoopBackNestJSNestJS
and
Sails.jsSails.js

We have an existing (Apis only) Rails backend, that by default follows the MVC pattern, (at peaks of 700 requests a second). I am tasked with making the same (read-heavy) application in any JavaScript framework. I was advised to follow the MVC structure. So I am considering these 3 ( Sails.js, LoopBack, NestJS). I get that sails is closest to rails, but that's not particularly a priority.

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Needs advice
on
IonicIonic
and
NativeScriptNativeScript

For a small mobile app that uses mostly localization, to display Google Maps with hotspots nearby, which Cross-Platform would you prefer and why? It will make requests to a Sails.js app.

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Needs advice
on
Apache CordovaApache Cordova
and
Vue NativeVue Native

Heya, I'm very new on here! And I hope I can get advice on this matter :

We are working on a new app. The web version is on Sails.js (V1)/node.js/vue.js. Started with the Web App default settings (including login and payments, which we are using use). We started with a web version to give access to the customer to start creating the data while building the mobile version. (iOS and Android)

I heard of Apache Cordova, that using the same JavaScript/css could be used to not re-code the front-end of the app for iPhones and Androids. I've been told that it is end-of-life now (? - I couldn't find this info myself).

I saw that Vue Native might be an alternative and would only need a few adjustments from our web version as we are using Vue.js for the frontend.

I know next to nothing on this, so I would really appreciate it if you guys could point me to possible solutions you've used and why instead of searching through all the existing solutions. (I'm very open to know if there are alternatives to those two too !!)

We will need to be using the GPS functions of the mobiles, which is a big part of the app.

Thank you!

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Sails.js Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Sails.js?
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
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.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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