sails.js

So I have been playing with NodeJS/Express for a little with now and I would really like to try to rewrite a relatively large side project using a full JavaScript stack just to see how it will work. Sails.js seems to be a pretty good choice for a NodeJS backend for a REST API with support for web sockets which is exactly what I am looking for however is one more issue I am looking to resolve and that is transactional SQL within NodeJS. Most data layer/orms I have seen on the NodeJS side of things don't seem to support transactions when dealing with MySQL. The ORM provided with Sails.js

I'm trying to get authentication working over sockets with sailsjs and passport . The challenge seems to be the fact that a socket connection doesn't have a session, and that sailsjs mocks a request object, causing it to not have Passport middleware setup. This caused nodejs to throw an error, saying that the req object didn't have a method called logIn . So, I've tried following the code snippet as provided by @xdissent here: Sails.js + Passport.js authentication through websockets which, indeed allows me to sign in without throwing errors. Or does it..? It turns out that it does something ,

I need my sails.js app to serve minified html to the user. So it is hard to read by the user. Has anyone done this before ? Thank you. Marcelo Boeira This works for me: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/2188#issuecomment-56994236 In config/views.js : var minify = require('html-minifier').minify; var ejs = require('ejs-locals'); var parsing = function(path,options,fn) { options.locals = options.locals || {}; options.locals._layoutFile = 'layout.ejs'; ejs(path, options, function(err, str){ str = minify(str,{collapseWhitespace: true, removeComments: true}); return fn(err, str); }); };

In production I have AWS credentials stored as heroku config variables. In development I want to include the config details in config/local.js, but how do I access the config details in a controller? local.js contains: module.exports = { aws_key: "...", aws_secret: "..." } In my controller I have tried aws_key , config.aws_key , and others - but no luck. Is there a main app namespace that I can use to scope into the properties exported by local.js? I am new to sails and I feel like this should be straight forward - any help would be appreciated. Drew Solution found. Step 3 was where I was

I have a module called 'sails-mongo' and I want to update it to the newest version using the following command: npm update sails-mongo --save I also tried uninstall then install again. I tried sails-mongo@latest and sails-mongo@beta . Problem : The current version ( master ) on GitHub the package.json ( https://github.com/balderdashy/sails-mongo/blob/master/package.json ) file has: "dependencies": { "async": "~0.2.9", "lodash": "~2.4.1", "mongodb": "1.4.2", "waterline-errors": "~0.10.0" }, And in the one being updated "dependencies": { "async": "0.2.10", "underscore": "1.5.2", "underscore

I have limited experience deploying Node.js apps -- how can I deploy a Sails.js app to Heroku? I've heroku login ed and heroku create d my app already. Jérémie Parker You should check out this github repo : heroku-sails It should get you started with sailsjs on heroku There is a discussion around this particular github repo here on the sails.js google group These are also resources that can help you get your app running : Sails Deployment Guide An answer of sails.js author to the same question I want to prevent any confusion for those who are familiar to node deployment on heroku. There are a