Is Sails.js dying?

There's a few big MVCish frameworks out there, like keystonejs: https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone. But, yea, it's so easy in Node to make a small server that works without one of these frameworks that it's not always worthwhile.

Sails is hugely productive to work with, I find. Issues seem to hang around for a _long_ time before they get fixed though.

I find the JavaScript world exhausting right now, there are too many frameworks popping up and dying for me to spend the time investing into learning something new only for it to be gone in a few weeks. I rarely do node on my servers, but when I do it's still plain old express with some simple middleware, nothing too fancy.

I recently saw a JS framework usage chart. It was a good reality check.

With all the hype and posts about excited devs looking like the next framework with a beautiful minimalist website and a clean, new "Hello, world!" example as it would be crack, it's easy to get the impression that say Vue.js or Riot is climbing the ladder rapidly along with React, but the bulk of them are almost not even USED. Many recently hyped frameworks saw < 1% usage so they were excluded from the list! If a newcomer is looking for Javascript work today, seems like the safe choices are things like Bootstrap and jQuery... :P Go with something like Dojo or Backbone if you're feeling adventurous!