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I think something that is somewhat similar but even more fleshed out than Sails is NestJS.

Personally though, I'm just done with server side JS and the dependency hell coming with it.

NestJS is my go to and the reason why I haven't touched Sails in years, but it is more "Angular for the backend" than "Rails for JavaScript" imo.

but I probably should've mentioned it anyway since it has been my node backend framework of choice for quite a while.

I'm kinda with you on that though. I'm actually currently prototyping new services in DotNet Core and am really enjoying it so far.