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Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by mweibel »

I've looked the past week into sails.js. It brings a really cool new way to MVC Frameworks and makes it easy to do certain aspects. What I missed (and that's why I'm using express.js now) is the documentation (lacking) and testability (lacking as well). Also the ORM is really lacking. I'd recommend the authors to look into an existing ORM (sequelize or node-orm2) instead of creating an own one.

Sails certainly needs more polishing but I look forward to use it in the future at some point, because I really like what it wants to accomplish.

If you like certain aspects (exposing models via REST, policies etc.) it's really easy to do in express.js as well.

Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by marcamillion »

I love how this is put together and packaged. The graphics, nice intro video, and very clear docs. Well done!

I wish more OSS projects would put more care in their docs. Adding more personality and character and just cleaning it up - making it feel more approachable.

Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by derda »

etanol wrote: post #13

I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Well the definition is Soft Real-Time (which may apply here) vs. Hard Real-Time (i.e. car ECU).

But having done university research work in the field of hard real-time systems I also think "naahh thats not real-time" every time I see some Web-Framework advertised as such. There is a big set of interesting problems in hard real-time systems: Complex scheduling algorithms, fault proctection and recovery, bus systems that are also able to fulfil your timing requirements....

If you spend some time doing this kind of work your had will wrap around different problems. You cannot take malloc granted, you always fear that the compiler does something wrong or that you better write that routine in inline ASM. Etc.

That said, I do a lot of stuff in python now and its refreshing, but I miss these problems a little bit.

Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by kaoD »

Judging from the description it does what the other 1000+ Node MVC frameworks do. What's the advantage of Sails over them? CRUD scaffolding is nothing new in Node's ecosystem.

Apparently their edge is that users can manipulate the database on their own in the default scaffold?

EDIT: Downvote without a comment is not constructive. This is a legitimate question. Care to explain?

Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by kaoD »

marcamillion wrote: post #12

I love how this is put together and packaged. The graphics, nice intro video, and very clear docs. Well done! I wish more OSS projects would put more care in their docs. Adding more personality and character and just cleaning it up - making it feel more approachable.

This is pretty standard presentation for Node.js packages.

Re: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js

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Post by d4mn »

I started using sails.js and I loved it. I'm new in node so I needed some starting point. Before that I was coding in php and used frameworks. I couldn't imagine working without one so I started to look into node frameworks. All of them have good sides and bad. But sails.js was the one which I loved from first sight. I don't know why but it looked so similar to php frameworks I used. It was very simple for me so I started working with it and contributing. Yeah this framework lacks some futures but it's only a time question when it gets better and better. Because I think this framework will become choice number 1 for starting coders. Good luck guys and nice job!
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