On: Sails.js – Real-time MVC Framework for Node.js

[ulisesrmzroche]

expressjs is a more minimalist framework, taking a lot more inspiration from sinatra than rails. This wants to be rails for javascript.

edit: Actually, just checked the package.json, and express is listed as a dependency, (probably for the controller middleware?) so in essence you're using both.

[dylanhassinger → ulisesrmzroche]

Sails is based on top of Express. Like if Rails had Sinatra at the core

[cpursley → dylanhassinger]

A better analogy is the way Padrino has Sinatra at the core.