Comment by Maneesh Kumar on "Is Sails.js worth learning and using in your projects?"

Muhamed Krasniqi

Hi , I used Sails js . You can use sails js for your project . I feel that learning curve is small so you can pick all technical information in short time . Very easy to create rest API in Sails JS . All sails js information is available in Sails js Site.

I would only like to focus that Kindly select Sails JS if it is supporting your DB . Because You can easily get adapter for supported DB .

sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/extending-sail…

You can also check support matrix in above URL.

Kindly let me know if you need more technical information . I will be happy to share with you .

All the Best :)

Extending Maneesh Kumar's answer, Sails offers to develop MVC using socket.io and Express. Good part is, it takes away lots of underlying pain from you in terms of setting up things and infrastructural pieces. I found this advantage is a disadvantage as well. You rely on configurations and if something breaks, you got to know which configuration to tweak. Their documentation is rich so, you shouldn't have an issue.

I have never used Sails as MVC because, I felt that, the real strength of sails comes from representing the layer of APIs. Hence my usage of sails is very much to create REST APIs. Coming up with REST APIs is very easy and it has number of db supports as mentioned above. It is easier to write an adapter of your own if they do not provide one OOTB. The community around seems to be strong too.

Btw.. we have been using sails in our production for some time now. Haven't had issues that invoked thoughts of replacing it.

This is what they claim:

Using the Sails.js framework, you should be able to:

Automatically generate REST APIs from your models
Form MVC structures
Support WebSockets in the real time
Support multiple databases
Have a plugin system
Get policies to secure
Perform front-end agnostic

Good Luck!

Thanks a lot for all this valuable information. I am intending to use SQL Server as my DBMS and can I use it with Sails.js and if yes are there any difficulties ?

Muhamed Krasniqi

Yes you can use it . It will work without any issue . Kindly visit to Sails JS site .

I will give you suggestion to use Sails JS 1 version . It will provide your lot of new feature as compare to version .12 . If you want more information . We can discuss further on call .

Thanks

Thanks a lot guys, it was very helpful :)

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