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The author seems to be comparing Node mindshare to Rails, but his Node framework of choice is Sails. It seems to me most production Node web apps are using Express or to a lesser extent Koa and Meteor. Is there some huge secret contingent of production Sails apps I don't know about?

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Most people who come to Node from other languages are running monolithic apps and are looking to replace those apps with the same MVC structure, just in their new language. Sails is one of those frameworks. Express and Koa on the otherhand are not so much setup for that. You have to do a lot of work to get Express and Koa to be a monolithic app.

Just a small correction: Sails is actually built on top of Express.js.

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