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So how is it different from Express.js?

Express isn't really much of a client side MVC framework. It is still a very clean and simple framework.

If you want to drink the cool aid of single page apps, 'rich' client side etc, you have to invest into some MVVC/MVC frameworks like Angular, Ember or now Sails, which works well with Node.js apparently.

imo Sails is a backend framework to be used with Node, while you can use Ember/Angular/whatever on the frontend side.

You are right. Having not gone through what Sails was, I have mis-represented it a bit. Its more RoR than Sinatra (Express) as others have expressed here.

Express is not a client-side MVC framework at all-- in fact it's completely shrugged off view engines to other modules since 3.x (which is supported in Sails 0.9-- I'm releasing that very soon)

expressjs is a more minimalist framework, taking a lot more inspiration from sinatra than rails. This wants to be rails for javascript.

edit: Actually, just checked the package.json, and express is listed as a dependency, (probably for the controller middleware?) so in essence you're using both.

Sails is based on top of Express. Like if Rails had Sinatra at the core

A better analogy is the way Padrino has Sinatra at the core.

It's sugar on top of Express. This ties in a bunch of other things you need, authentication, authorization, building APIs and generators in a more cohesive way. Still hard to be plain old Express.

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