Re:Status of Sails.js
by hitekker on Friday January 01, 2016 @10:22AM
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Depends on the kind of projects. In the "heavy" web framework category ("we take care of lots of the busy work for you"), an established project like Django can expect 256 commits a month:
ExpressJS, on the other hand, only had 5 commits this past month, but one could argue that it's not as "heavy" as SailsJS and others are trying to be.
I agree commit count by itself is not a good pulse on a project's life, but, as this thread shows, there's a lot of issues left unresolved. Not mentioned yet one of the lead developers posted on Sails.js future right here:
https://github.com/django/django/pulse/monthly.
For rails, 468:
https://github.com/rails/rails/pulse/monthly
ExpressJS, on the other hand, only had 5 commits this past month, but one could argue that it's not as "heavy" as SailsJS and others are trying to be.
I agree commit count by itself is not a good pulse on a project's life, but, as this thread shows, there's a lot of issues left unresolved. Not mentioned yet one of the lead developers posted on Sails.js future right here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/2p2i40/is_sailsjs_dea...
The most important line is:
> There's not much really left to add to Sails other than bug fixes at this point.
All these indicators together = a dead project.