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24 alternatives to Sails.js

The web framework of your dreams. Nodejs web framework.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sails.js launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    VS code tooling for Sails(Nodejs framework)

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AdonisJS▲238

    A fully featured web framework for Node.js

    2021 · adonisjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Powerful server for Node.js that just works so you can focus on your awesome project

    2017 · serverjs.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Thanks for your attention to my post. It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.

    2022 · playcode.io · its alternatives →

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    A truly open source, community driven Meteor alternative

    2016 · feathersjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Build powerful & dynamic web applications – without limits

    2022 · nextjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Develop stunning web and desktop applications

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Leafjs▲81

    A lightweight web-components based frontend framework

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    CMS written with sails.js -- primarily used for my personal site - hayksaakian/cms-on-sails

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The most advanced Node.js topics simplified

    2016 · nodejsdesignpatterns.com · its alternatives →

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    🚀 3D Framework for developing web apps with physics.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Develop web apps in React & Node.js with no boilerplate

    2022 · wasp.sh · its alternatives →

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    RedwoodJS▲203

    Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…

    2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →

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    NestJS▲149

    A progressive Node.js framework 🚀

    2018 · nestjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Build scalable APIs in Node.js platform

    2016 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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    About a year ago, I stumbled upon a new Nodejs language called "Imba", I found this language to be interesting and it seemed like it had a lot of potential. Doing a bit of digging, I realized no one had created a framework for it, so what did a normal dev do? Well, a normal dev went ahead and created another Nodejs Framework, only this time it was meant for Imba. So what did I create? I created a batteries included Framework heavily inspired by Laravel but it runs on Nodejs, and uses Imba as the default language, but you can actually use TypeScript or JavaScript. In fact, when creating a new…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    NW.js▲77

    A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies

    2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →

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    Dev environments, in your web app

    2023 · webcontainers.io · its alternatives →

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    MVC Framework for NodeJs to write webapps with less code

    2016 · adonisjs.com · its alternatives →

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    🚀 A React Framework for building extensible drag and drop page editors - prevwong/craft.js

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Top Node.js Frameworks To Gear Up Your Development Projects

    2022 · cmarixtechnolabs.medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn Angular, Backbone, Ember quickly

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Find out which framework reigns supreme

    2019 · its alternatives →

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