Sails.js

Sails.js
Developer(s)	Mike McNeil and others
Initial release	2012 (2012)
Repository	github.com/balderdashy/sails
Written in	JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Node.js
Type	Web framework
License	MIT License
Website	sailsjs.com

Sails.js, or simply Sails, is the most popular MVC web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js web applications and APIs. Emulating the MVC architecture of other frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, 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. Because it is built on Node.js and Express.js, it enables applications to be built with 100% JavaScript. This not only includes models, views, and controllers; but also configuration files, adapters (e.g., database), etc.

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 behind the scenes to enable fast auto-generated REST APIS, WebSockets by default using Socket.io, and compatibility features making it front-end agnostic so that many tools and frameworks (AngularJS, React.js, Android, iOS, etc) are supported.

Community Acclaim

As compared to other libraries/frameworks, like FeathersJS, Sails offers a host of features out of the box and leads as the generally accepted Node.js framework for both full-stack development and REST APIs.