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.
 *
 * For example:
 *   => `node app.js`
 *   => `forever start app.js`
 *   => `node debug app.js`
 *   => `modulus deploy`
 *   => `heroku scale`
 *
 *
 * The same command-line arguments are supported, e.g.:
 * `node app.js --silent --port=80 --prod`
 */

// 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.

require('babel-register')({
    presets: ['es2015'],
    plugins: ['add-module-exports']
});

process.chdir(__dirname);

// Attempt to import `sails` dependency, as well as `rc` (for loading `.sailsrc` files).
let sails;
let 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'));