balderdashy/sails

Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

# [](http://sailsjs.com) ### [Website](https://sailsjs.com/) [Get Started](https://sailsjs.com/get-started) [Docs](http://sailsjs.com/documentation) [News](http://twitter.com/sailsjs) [Submit Issue](http://sailsjs.com/bugs) [](http://badge.fury.io/js/sails) [](https://gitter.im/balderdashy/sails) [](https://twitter.com/sailsjs) Sails.js is a [web framework](http://sailsjs.com/whats-that) that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. 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 & API development. It's especially good for building realtime features like chat. Since version 1.0, Sails supports `await` out of the box. This replaces nested callbacks (and the commensurate error handling) with simple, familiar usage: ```javascript var orgs = await Organization.find(); ``` ## Installation **With [node](http://nodejs.org) [installed](http://nodejs.org/en/download):** ```sh # Get the latest stable release of Sails $ npm install sails -g ``` > ##### Upgrading from an earlier version of Sails? > Upgrade guides for all major releases since 2013 are available on the Sails website under [**Upgrading**](http://sailsjs.com/upgrading). ## Your First Sails Project **Create a new app:** ```sh # Create the app sails new my-app ``` **Lift sails:** ```sh # cd into the new folder cd my-app # fire up the server sails lift ``` [![Screenshot from the original Sails video](http://i.