Sails
Node.js MVC web framework for building data-driven apps and APIs with realtime features.
Sails is a web framework for Node.js that follows the MVC pattern and is built on Express. It ships blueprints that help start a backend without writing code, uses EJS views by default, and its data layer supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.
Apps are installed with npm and started with the sails command. For production, the deployment guide keeps the server running as a Node process and recommends a tool such as pm2 or forever to keep it up.
Worth knowing
The legal page names two offerings beside the open source framework: a hosted platform called Treeline IDE and a support service called Sails Flagship. This record describes the framework only.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-22: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/balderdashy/sails - 2026-10-22: links, Built on, Databases
github.com/balderdashy/sails/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-22: Maintainer
sailsjs.com/legal - 2026-10-22: Maintained by
sailsjs.com/about - 2026-10-22: Headquarters, Runtime, Install with
sailsjs.com/get-started - 2026-10-22: Categories, Content API, License model
sailsjs.com - 2026-10-22: Templating
sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/views - 2026-10-22: Multilingual
sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/internationalization - 2026-10-22: Runs as
sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/deployment - 2026-10-22: Current major version
registry.npmjs.org/sails/latest - 2026-10-22: Last release
registry.npmjs.org/sails - 2026-10-22: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/balderdashy/sails/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-22: npm downloads a week
api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/sails - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/sails