app.js

/**
 * app.js
 *
 * Use `app.js` to run your app without `sails lift`.
 * To start the server, run: `node app.js`.
 *
 * This is handy in situations where the sails CLI is not relevant or useful,
 * such as when you deploy to a server, or a PaaS like Heroku.
 *
 * For example:
 *   => `node app.js`
 *   => `npm start`
 *   => `forever start app.js`
 *   => `node debug app.js`
 *
 * The same command-line arguments and env vars are supported, e.g.:
 * `NODE_ENV=production node app.js --port=80 --verbose`
 *
 * For more information see:
 *   https://sailsjs.com/anatomy/app.js
 */


// Ensure we're in the project directory, so cwd-relative paths work as expected
// no matter where we actually lift from.
// > Note: This is not required in order to lift, but it is a convenient default.
process.chdir(__dirname);



// Attempt to import `sails` dependency, as well as `rc` (for loading `.sailsrc` files).
var sails;
var rc;
try {
  sails = require('sails');
  rc = require('sails/accessible/rc');
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Encountered an error when attempting to require(\'sails\'):');
  console.error(e.stack);
  console.error('--');
  console.error('To run an app using `node app.js`, you usually need to have a version of `sails` installed in the same directory as your app.');
  console.error('To do that, run `npm install sails`');
  console.error();
  console.error('Alternatively, if you have sails installed globally (i.e. you did `npm install -g sails`), you can use `sails lift`.');
  console.error('When you run `sails lift`, your app will still use a local `./node_modules/sails` dependency if it exists,');
  console.error('but if it doesn\'t, the app will run with the global sails instead!');
  return;
}//-•


// Start server
sails.lift(rc('sails'));