[iends]

Sails had a bad reputation in a lot of NodeJS circles. Most people use express/koa and use knex or pg-promise.

[aman-pro]

Sails looks like a great framework otherwise. What is the reason for its bad reputation?

[olingern]

I think this thread [1] along with unstable modules were convincing enough for people not to trust their production applications with an open source project that has a shaky future.

Most people who were interested in the approach moved their efforts to TrailsJS [2]

[1] - https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/3429

[2] - https://trailsjs.io