Irl Nathan

Irl Nathan is a recovering lawyer who has worked in technology for 20+ years and started programming in earnest 5 years ago. Over the past 3 years, he’s been apprenticing with Mike and the Sails.js team. Irl is a core contributor to Sails, and he produced a successful thirty-plus-part screencast series focusing on web programming using an earlier version of Sails.

books by Irl Nathan

Sails.js in Action
  • January 2017
  • ISBN 9781617292613
  • 488 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white

Sails.js in Action is a comprehensive guide on how to build enterprise-capable web applications. Written by the creators of Sails.js, this book introduces each concept and technique with real-world examples and thorough explanations. As you read, you'll learn to build the backend of a typical web application while you explore real-time programming with WebSockets, security fundamentals, and best practices for building Sails/Node.js apps.