app.js

/**
Copyright (c) 2019, salesforce.com, inc.
All rights reserved.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
For full license text, see the LICENSE file in the repo root or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
*/

/**
 * 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 (err) {
    console.error("Encountered an error when attempting to require('sails'):");
    console.error(err.stack);
    console.error('--');
    console.error(
        'To run an app using `node app.js`, you need to have Sails installed'
    );
    console.error(
        "locally (`./node_modules/sails`).  To do that, just make sure you're"
    );
    console.error('in the same directory as your app and run `npm install`.');
    console.error();
    console.error(
        'If Sails is installed globally (i.e. `npm install -g sails`) you can'
    );
    console.error(
        'also run this app with `sails lift`.  Running with `sails lift` will'
    );
    console.error(
        'not run this file (`app.js`), but it will do exactly the same thing.'
    );
    console.error(
        "(It even uses your app directory's local Sails install, if possible.)"
    );
    return;
} //-•

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