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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailsjs&#x2F;trails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailsjs&#x2F;trails</a>. Yes it rhymes, no it&#x27;s not a fork. It&#x27;s a modern re-write with modern tools and ES6, built around similar conventions.