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What's the cost?

Christian from Platzi. We're creating livestreamed classes with great companies doing stuff for devs, designers and makers. We've had Sam Altman talking about Startups and the guys from Gitlab. Today we have Mike McNeil teaching Sails.js. What else would you like to learn?

You guys are putting out some amazing courses. Congrats! React.js would be pretty cool too.

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Does anyone have any experience with sails?

I use Sails.js in production for few products were I work.

Basically it's just Express well structured and organised with some fancy features and nice CLI.

L.E. If anyone is interested how to replace Waterline with Mongoose into a Sails project, let me know. I did that a project.

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Does anyone have any experience with sails?

I'm on the core team and can help answer any questions you have.

Cool! Thanks for the offer to answer further questions. When I google for sails, as you're probably aware, I come across this article from more than a year ago:

http://nathanleclaire.com/blog/2013/12/28/the-good-the-bad-a...

It's a "good, bad, ugly" article, but it's old. Care to comment on any of the issues mentioned in the "bad and ugly" parts. Specifically, I wonder about the (alleged, possibly old) lack of Waterline ORM support for associations / relational data. I'm hoping that's a softball question. I love seeing new approaches succeed!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on the core team and can help answer any questions you have.

Cool! Thanks for the offer to answer further questions. When I google for sails, as you're probably aware, I come across this article from more than a year ago: http://nathanleclaire.com/blog/2013/12/28/the-good-the-bad-a... It's a "good, bad, ugly" article, but it's old. Care to comment on any of the issues mentioned in the "bad and ugly" parts. Specifically, I wonder about the (alleged, possibly old) lack of Waterl…

Version 0.10 of Waterline now supports associations. It's not as robust as I would like it but its iterative and it's getting better all the time. As for issues piling up thats something that is tough to solve. There are only a handful of us and we try our best to get to issues in a timely manner but like any large open source project it's a battle. Our builds are also passing now :) https://travis-ci.org/balderdashy/sails/builds

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Does anyone have any experience with sails?

My team has been using Sails in production (and at a decent scale) for a while. Though things have improved with 0.10, it's still unfortunately lacking in consistency. When pushing the "limits" of basic things like validations, routing, or more-than-trivial database queries, we've run into quite a few issues that have been reported but completely unresolved - some we've had to work around and others we've learned to live with.

This isn't at all meant to discredit the Balderdashy team - I'm glad the project exists and they're doing good things. However, we've been told that their focus is on their clients and on paying enterprise customers - which is completely understandable - but that leaves groups like us in the large queue of Github issues without any solution or resolution. A lot of what seemed like "useful magic" (blueprints, responses, parameter handling, auto-loading of various components) has turned into unpredictable or broken "magic" as our codebase grows.

I hope that the team has some time to work through their backlog and revisit or replace some of the more lacking pieces. I'd love to see Sails grow into a mature and stable framework in the future.

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Hi guys. Interesting format. Are you going through YC at the moment? What are your future plans?

We had a live class with Sam Altman two weeks ago. And Gitlab and Sails.js this week. We're almost there for classes with Docker, RethinkDB and Stripe.

And then, we hope to do a full course on either React.js and JS app dev or Social Media Marketing and Community Management. Still debating that. What do you guys think?

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