Sails.js makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to resemble the MVC architecture from frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the more modern, data-oriented style of web app development. It's especially good for building realtime features like chat.

With node installed:

sudo npm install sails -g

Create a new app:

# Create the app
sails new testProject

Start the server:

# cd into the new folder
cd testProject

# Fire up the server  
sails lift

Make sure you've read the issue submission guidelines before opening a new issue.

Sails is composed of a number of different sub-projects, many of which have their own dedicated repository. If you are looking for a repo for a particular piece, you'll find it on the organization page.

Before submitting a new feature request, please check out the Trello board and see if it's already there. You can upvote and comment. New feature requests may be submitted by sending an email with a short, < 10-word summary of the feature in the subject line. It might take a few minutes to show up.

See the contributing docs.

Need help or have a question?

• Tutorials
• Stackoverflow
• #sailsjs on Freenode (IRC channel)
• Professional/Enterprise Options

Please don't use the issue tracker for support/questions.

• Website
• Official Documentation
• Changelog
• Roadmap
• Google Group
• Twitter
• SailsCasts

Sails is actively built and maintained by Balderdash (@balderdashy), a realtime web & mobile studio, with the help of these contributors:

Mike McNeil	Cody Stoltman	Scott Gress	Greg Thornton	Zoli Kahan

Balderdash designs/builds scalable Node.js apps for startups and enterprise customers. After building a few apps and taking them into production, we realized that the Node.js development landscape was very much still the Wild West. Over time, after trying lots of different methodologies, we decided to crystallize all of our best practices into this framework. I hope it saves you some time :)

MIT License Copyright © 2012-2014 Mike McNeil

Sails is built around so many great open-source technologies that it would never have crossed our minds to keep it proprietary. We owe huge gratitude and props to TJ Holowaychuk (@visionmedia) and Guillermo Rauch (@guille) for the work they did, as well as the stewards of all the other open-source modules we use. Sails could never have been developed without your tremendous contributions to the node community.