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Available hooks

This page is meant to be an up to date, comprehensive list of all of the core hooks in the Sails.js framework, and a reference of a few of the most popular community-made hooks.

Core hooks

The following hooks are maintained by the Sails.js core team and are included in your Sails app by default. You can override or disable them using your sailsrc file or environment variables.

Hook	Package	Purpose
`grunt`	sails-hook-grunt	Governs the built-in asset pipeline in Sails.
`orm`	sails-hook-orm	Implements support for Waterline ORM in Sails.
`sockets`	sails-hook-sockets	Implements Socket.io support in Sails.

sails-hook-orm

Implements support for the Waterline ORM in Sails.

The default configuration set by this hook can be found here.

You can find futher details about this hook's purpose here.

You can disable this hook by following these instructions.

sails-hook-sockets

Implements socket.io support in Sails.

You can find futher details about this hook's purpose here.

sails-hook-grunt

Implements support for the built-in asset pipeline and task runner in Sails.

You can find futher details about this hook's purpose here.

You can disable this hook by following these instructions.

Community-made hooks

There are more than 200 community hooks for Sails.js available on NPM. Here are a few highlights:

Hook	Maintainer	Purpose
sails-hook-webpack	Michael Diarmid	Use Webpack for your Sails app's asset pipeline instead of Grunt.
sails-hook-postcss	Jeff Jewiss	Process your Sails application’s CSS with Postcss.
sails-hook-babel	Onoshko Dan, Markus Padourek & SANE	Process your Sails application’s CSS with Postcss.
sails-hook-responsetime	Luis Lobo Borobia	Add X-Response-Time to both HTTP and Socket request headers.
sails-hook-winston	Kikobeats	Integrate the Winston logging system with your Sails application.
sails-hook-allowed-hosts	Akshay Bist	Ensure that only requests made from authorized hosts/IP addresses are allowed.
sails-hook-cron	Eugene Obrezkov	Run cron tasks for your Sails app.
sails-hook-organics	Mike McNeil	Exposes a set of commonly-used functions ("organics") as built-in helpers in your Sails app.

Add your hook to this list

If you see out of date information on this page, or if you want to add a hook you made, please submit a pull request to this file updating the table of community hooks above.

Note: to be listed on this page, an adapter must be free and open-source (libre and gratis), preferably under the MIT license.

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