Sailsjs – how to begin – tech.tutulutu.ee

Prerequisites: installed nodejs and sailsjs

Create necessary directories

Open up terminal and write:

mkdir example-blog
cd example-blog/

Create sails backend

sails new example-blog-backend

We could lift sails now, but if we’d like to use MongoDB instead of using built-in ‘sails-disk’, we could install MongoDB right now.

Install MongoDB

cd example-blog-backend/
npm install sails-mongo --save

Now you have to say sails to use MongoDB. For that you have to modify two files: config/connections.js and config/models.js. Open up your editor and go to:
config/connections.js

 myMongodbServer: {
      adapter: 'sails-mongo',
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 27017,
      // user: '...',
      // password: '...',
      database: 'example-blog-db'
    }

config/models.js

connection: 'myMongodbServer'

If you make “sails lift” now, MongoDB creates itself database with name you gave it in connections.js, in current case ‘example-blog-db’

Lift sails

Go to folder example-blog-backend/ and:

sails lift

Go to address http://localhost:1337/ in your browser and you could see sails welcome-page.

Remark:

We didn’t generate API now, because its more reasonable to take care about authentication before it. In next post we install ‘Waterlock’ for authentication and then generate API.