🆚 Next.js vs. Sails

📈 Next.js is much more popular than Sails.
🌍 Next.js is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Sails is particularly popular in Japan.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Next.js

Sails

Type

Frontend framework

Backend framework

About

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes.

It also supports incremental static regeneration (ISR) to update static pages without full rebuilds, automatic image optimization, fast refresh during development, and built-in TypeScript support.

Sails is an enterprise-grade MVC framework for Node.js designed to build data-driven APIs and realtime web applications.

It includes the Waterline ORM for working with multiple databases, auto-generated REST endpoints via blueprints, front-end agnosticism, WebSocket support out of the box, and reusable security policies.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

nextjs.org #64,544

sailsjs.com #619,533

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Next.js frontend framework is 312 times more popular than Sails.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Next.js is more popular than Sails in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Germany

Brazil

France

Japan

Netherlands

Russia

Australia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Finland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Iceland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Estonia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Isle of Man in the Backend Frameworks category.

🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Next.js is more popular than Sails in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Education/Reference

General News

Finance/Banking

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#23

#47

#56

#61

Name

Rank

#33,345

#33,913

#77,678

#119,879

#120,893