I 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/

I 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.