About the Authors

Mike McNeil is an open source developer based in Austin, Texas, and the creator of Sails.js, one of the most popular frameworks for Node.js. He is also the CEO and cofounder of Treeline, a Y Combinator–backed startup working to democratize backend development.

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.