Intro to Sails.js

This talk will be brief introduction to Sails.js, a realtime, server-side MVC framework for Node.js. I’ll point out some of the problems that Node.js developers face when trying to build apps from scratch, and show how Sails helps solve them. I’ll also live-code examples of some tasks that are simplified by Sails.js. Sails is an open-source Node.js framework built on top of Express, Socket.io, and other industry-standard node modules. 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 aims to make Node more practical in production by providing a familiar structure for an app’s back-end while remaining unopinionated about the front-end and database-agnostic. It’s especially good for realtime features, like chat.