Sails: HTTP/2 protocol support with Sails

[inian]

Sails version: v1.0.0-40
Node version: v9.0.0
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Node.js launched with native HTTP/2 recently. HTTP/2 brings request and response multiplexing, header compression and PUSH support which will be very useful for certain kinds of applications.

All I managed to find is a feature request for integration with SPDY, but SPDY is dead.

Are there any plans of supporting HTTP/2 with Sail.js?

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[mikermcneil]

@inian Thanks for the interest! This originally came up like 5 years ago, but hadn't been something we'd seen a need for, other than out of curiosity. Now that the landscape has changed, and Node supports http2 in core, hopefully that'll change!

Since Express is a dependency of Sails, expect us to follow a similar path to Express 5. If our team or customers need http2 for an internal use case sooner than the relevant release of Express 5 is available, then it's possible we'll add a shim sooner, but I doubt that will be necessary.

btw here's a link to our updated roadmap: https://trello.com/b/s9zEnyG7

[dougwilson]

I can confirm here that Express is actively working on it, and Express work has directly lead to vast changes to http2 in Node.js core itself while it was behind a flag in the early Node.js 8.x versions. HTTP/2 support is very exciting to me, and Express does fully support HTTP/2 using the "spdy" user-land module at this time. The introduction of HTTP/2 into Node.js core will bring performance improvements to the implementation of course, but has never been a blocker from using HTTP/2 with Express for the years prior to now :)

[mikermcneil]

@dougwilson \o/ thanks for the update!

[mikermcneil]

INTERNAL TASK: When doug et al are ready for us, upgrade to Express 5 (yielding HTTP2 support)

[inian]

@mikermcneil that's great! Other frameworks are moving ahead with supporting native HTTP/2 of Node too. Been tracking their progress too here.

[sgress454]

Thanks all -- closing this since it's not bug related, and we've got it tracked on the roadmap. If we drag our feet, someone will surely remind us on here again :)

[tomascharad]

Hi @sgress454, how could I check the progress on this on the roadmap?
Is there any way for me to enable server push?

[lc-thomas]

Hi, I'm looking for a node framwork, and was thinking about using sails.
Is HTTP/2 supported now ?