Sails.js is a real-time MVC Framework for Node.js, which makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. Sails.js is database agnostic, automatically generates a RESTful JSON API for your app, provides basic security and role-based access control by default, has automatic asset minification and many more.
In this blog post we will show you how to install the Sails.js framework on a Ubuntu VPS with Nginx as a reverse proxy.
The following command will install all necessary packages
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
Install the the latest version of Nginx
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nginx
Install the latest version of Nodejs
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nodejs
Install the latest stable release of Sails
sudo npm -g install sails
Create a new Sails project
cd && sails new projectName
To start the server, run:
cd projectName && sails lift &
By default the server is listening on 127.0.0.1:1337
Create a new nginx virtual host
vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain.com
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:1337/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_buffering off;
}
}
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/your_domain.com /etc/init.d/nginx restart
That’s it. Now open your browser and navigate to your domain.
For more info about the Sails.js framework please go to: http://sailsjs.org/#!documentation
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