[tjwebbusa]

Being able to move "off" of Sails, interestingly, is a design principle of Sails itself. Sails is built on common node.js modules (express, socket.io, etc) and uses standard express middleware/APIs so that pieces of a Sails app can be ineroperable with other frameworks and tools. Waterline (the ORM layer) is designed to work with any database so that you aren't locked to a single vendor. It'd be hypocritical if we wanted to liberate you from other tools, but try to lock you into using Sails, wouldn't it? We feel that that's a feature, not a bug.

There are much larger companies (Fortune 100) that use Sails.js. This isn't a knock against Shyp at all, and I'm glad they're using Sails, I'd just like to clear up whatever the source of your misconception is. Sails, Waterline, and the many related modules are all in active development.

(Disclaimer: I work for Balderdash, the company that created Sails)