# Sails Co / Sails.js

> Sails Co. is a full-service web, mobile, and cloud studio (Y Combinator W15, Austin, TX) founded by the creators of Sails.js. Sails.js is an open-source, API-driven MVC framework for Node.js — built on Express and Socket.io — for building production-ready, realtime web apps and data-driven REST APIs, with the Waterline ORM and auto-generated "blueprint" REST APIs. This profile is generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline; Sails Co is a framework/tooling company, not a hosted API provider.

## Overview
- Company: Sails Co. (backed by Y Combinator)
- Product: Sails.js — MVC framework for Node.js (MIT license)
- Website: https://sailsjs.com
- Latest release: sails 1.5.18 (npm)

## Docs
- Documentation: https://sailsjs.com/documentation
- Get Started: https://sailsjs.com/get-started
- What is Sails?: https://sailsjs.com/whats-that
- Features: https://sailsjs.com/features
- Support: https://sailsjs.com/support
- Blog: https://sailsjs.com/blog

## Packages
- sails (npm): https://www.npmjs.com/package/sails — the framework + `sails` CLI
- waterline (npm): https://www.npmjs.com/package/waterline — datastore-agnostic ORM

## Source
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/balderdashy
- Sails core: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails
- Waterline ORM: https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline

## CLI
- Install: npm install sails -g
- Key commands: sails new, sails lift, sails console, sails generate, sails debug, sails inspect

## Notes
- Sails auto-generates blueprint REST APIs and supports realtime WebSockets via Socket.io.
- No hosted API, OAuth server, or /.well-known discovery documents are published by Sails Co.