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 a "sails" can be located:
var sails;
try {
	sails = require('sails');
} catch (e) {
	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;
}

// Try to get `rc` dependency
var rc;
try {
	rc = require('rc');
} catch (e0) {
	try {
		rc = require('sails/node_modules/rc');
	} catch (e1) {
		console.error('Could not find dependency: `rc`.');
		console.error('Your `.sailsrc` file(s) will be ignored.');
		console.error('To resolve this, run:');
		console.error('npm install rc --save');
		rc = function () { return {}; };
	}
}


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