Web APIs with Sails

A Node Congress workshop on building web APIs with Sails. We built Switter - a twitter clone but sweeter :)

Head over to https://blog.sailscasts.com for more on Sails and https://sailscasts.com

Transcript

1. @Dominus_Kelvin Web APIs with Sails A beginner’s introduction to Sails
2. A little bit about me • Building Sailscasts • Software Engineer and Consultant • Technical writer Kelvin Omereshone Founder and CEO The Sailscasts Company
4. What is Sails? • The MVC framework for Node.js • Sits on top of Express • Designed to emulate Ruby on Rails • Supports modern apps requirements out of the box: data-driven APIs with a scalable, service-oriented architecture
5. Sails Philosophy • Improve day-to-day experience of server-side development • Build apps more e ff i ciently and with less risk • Anyone who can understand basic backend concepts can build apps
6. Benefits of Sails • Build practical, production ready Node.js apps in a matter of weeks not months • Makes building complex applications easy • Enforces clean code • Provides a clear project structure • Gives you a series of building blocks
7. Sails in the Wild
8. What you can build with Sails • REST APIs • Real-time chat applications and games • Fullstack MVC apps (e.g e-commerce website) • Basically any server-side applications can be built with Sails
9. Let’s Sails ⛵ Sails in action Building a mini web API
10. Installation and Setup Getting Started
11. Installing the Sails CLI npm install -g sails
12. Create a new Sails app new <app-name> sails
13. New Sails app tailored for web APIs switter —no-frontend sails new
14. What we will build • A twitter clone called Switter • Join switter endpoint • login to switter endpoint • Create sweets • View all sweets • View single sweets • Update sweets • Delete sweets • Deploy on Heroku
15. Cue to ask questions Let’s Build
16. Going forward • https://sailsjs.com • Sailscasts Community on Discord • https://blog.sailscasts.com
17. @Dominus_Kelvin Thanks. 😊