Everything about Sails.js

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Sails.jsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Space sails for achieving major space exploration goals: Historical review and future outlookInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Life of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, prince and priestThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Latent class analysis of ARDS subphenotypes: a secondary analysis of the statins for acutely injured lungs from sepsis (SAILS) studyCited 311 times
5. Go sideways: Web frameworkA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Solution stackA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Latent class analysis of ARDS subphenotypes: a secondary analysis of the statins for acutely injured lungs from sepsis (SAILS) study

  Pratik Sinha, Kevin L. Delucchi, B. Taylor Thompson · 2018 · Intensive Care Medicine · 311 citations

• New wind in the sails: improving the agronomic value of crop plants through RNA i‐mediated gene silencing

  Aline Koch, Karl‐Heinz Kogel · 2014 · Plant Biotechnology Journal · 228 citations

• SHP2 sails from physiology to pathology

  Mylène Tajan, Audrey de Rocca Serra, Philippe Valet · 2015 · European Journal of Medical Genetics · 225 citations

• Ultralight deployable booms for solar sails and other large gossamer structures in space

  Joachim Block, Marco Straubel, Martin Wiedemann · 2011 · Acta Astronautica · 182 citations

• Magnetic sails and interplanetary travel

  Robert M. Zubrin, Dana G. Andrews · 1991 · Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets · 146 citations

• Fast Analysis of Multi-Asteroid Exploration Mission Using Multiple Electric Sails

  Mingying Huo, Zichen Fan, Ji Qi · 2023 · Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics · 129 citations

• The Ancient mariner Sails Again: Transposition of the Human Hsmar1 Element by a Reconstructed Transposase and Activities of the SETMAR Protein on Transposon Ends

  Csaba Miskey, Balázs Papp, Lajos Mátés · 2007 · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 114 citations

• Parametric Model and Optimal Control of Solar Sails with Optical Degradation

  Bernd Dachwald, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta · 2006 · Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics · 113 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Space sails for achieving major space exploration goals: Historical review and future outlook

  Maximilien Berthet, James Schalkwyk, Onur Çelik · 2024 · Progress in Aerospace Sciences · 62 citations

• Development of autonomous sailboat sails and future perspectives: A review

  Zhaoyang Sun, Ao Feng, Jiancheng Yu · 2025 · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · 37 citations

• Recycling end-of-life sails by carbon fibre reclamation and composite remanufacture using the HiPerDiF fibre alignment technology

  Marcelle D. Hecker, Marco L. Longana, Jean-Charles Eloi · 2023 · Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing · 37 citations

• Effect of total cholesterol and statin therapy on mortality in ARDS patients: a secondary analysis of the SAILS and HARP-2 trials

  Shaun M. Pienkos, Andrew R. Moore, Jiazhen Guan · 2023 · Critical Care · 34 citations

• We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats

  Alexandra Mittermaier, Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt · 2022 · Organization Science · 31 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Life of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, prince and priestSarah M. Brownson · 1873
• The America's CupRichard V. Simpson · 2010
• Sails.js in ActionMike McNeil, Irl Nathan · 2017
• 📕Sails. js EssentialsShaikh Shahid · 2016
• 📕The America's CupRichard V. Simpson · 2010
• 📕Hearings before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals on H.R. 3110, first session Fifty-seventh CongressUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals · 1902
• Crimson gloryW. Lee Higgins · 1939
• Analysis and design of marine structuresInternational Conference on Marine Structures (2009 Lisbon, Portugal) · 2009

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