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Is Sails.js dying?
- sotojuan 11y agoWas it ever big to begin with? Aside from Meteor, the JavaScript community doesn't seem to be interested in Rails-like frameworks.
- gmmeyer 11y agoThere's a few big MVCish frameworks out there, like keystonejs: https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone. But, yea, it's so easy in Node to make a small server that works without one of these frameworks that it's not always worthwhile.
- traviswebb 11y agoRight; if you're building a large system, you'll want to structure your design around a set of common patterns. Just writing a ton of hapi/express/koa routes works only up to a point, past which the application's complexity becomes a hindrance to future progress. As with any system. If you're building a website for your cat, then sure, the tools you use don't really matter.
- nbrempel 11y agoSails is hugely productive to work with, I find. Issues seem to hang around for a _long_ time before they get fixed though.
- yowza 11y agoYes. Like, 99% of js frameworks are.
- nerdwaller 11y agoI find the JavaScript world exhausting right now, there are too many frameworks popping up and dying for me to spend the time investing into learning something new only for it to be gone in a few weeks. I rarely do node on my servers, but when I do it's still plain old express with some simple middleware, nothing too fancy.
- tuananh 11y agotrue. Usually, i just stumble upon those framework. If i see something nice, i will integrate it to my barebone hapijs project template.
- lynnaloo 11y agoI use Hapi with Waterline and I love it. I'm looking forward to exploring Trails (pardon the pun) and integrating with my Hapi projects.
- traviswebb 11y agoAs I mentioned in another comment, the smaller the system you're building, the less importance your tools have to the success of the project.
- a-guest 11y agoAbsolutely agree. And here's the newsletter you need to keep up. http://tenpeaksjournal.com/2015/12/12/javascript-millisecondly/ http://tenpeaksjournal.com/2015/12/12/javascript-millisecond...
- jug 11y agoI recently saw a JS framework usage chart. It was a good reality check. With all the hype and posts about excited devs looking like the next framework with a beautiful minimalist website and a clean, new "Hello, world!" example as it would be crack, it's easy to get the impression that say Vue.js or Riot is climbing the ladder rapidly along with React, but the bulk of them are almost not even USED. Many recently hyped frameworks saw < 1% usage so they were excluded from the list! If a newcomer is looking for Javascript work today, seems like the safe choices are things like Bootstrap and jQuery... :P Go with something like Dojo or Backbone if you're feeling adventurous!
- traviswebb 11y agoI wrote the comment that OP linked to. IMHO, Sails is dying, which is why many of the project maintainers have started building a successor: https://github.com/trailsjs/trails https://github.com/trailsjs/trails. Yes it rhymes, no it's not a fork. It's a modern re-write with modern tools and ES6, built around similar conventions.