For example, if there is an error in the 500.ejs view then default serverError() should show this one instead of initial error as it does currently.
In this case the developer should first fix his/her 500.ejs to prevent later troubles with it.

To resolve issue for ./responses/serverError.js one can correct callback of res.view() with lines like:

      else {
        sails.log.warn('res.serverError() :: When attempting to render error page view, an error occured (sending JSON instead).  Details: ', err);
      }
-      return res.jsonx(data);
+      if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
+        return res.jsonx(err);
+      }
+      return res.send(500, "Internal Server Error");
}

(In this code data is replaced with err.)

Callbacks of res.view() and res.guessView() in code of other default response methods should be corrected also.

Is there a reason, why the data argument in the forbidden response is "prettified"?
This also turns every JSON object into a string.

See the following code lines:
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails-generate-backend/blob/master/templates/api/responses/forbidden.js#L50-L57

Removing lines 50-57 still works for simple text passed as data.

The change was introduced by @sgress454 in commit 19c7ae9

Within templates/config/connections.js, this file actually defines default connections.

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails-generate-backend/blob/v0.12.4/templates/config/connections.js

These should be commented out by default, especially since most of them require additional npm packages to be installed.

After creating a new project and defining our mongo configuration into config/env/development.js, we kept seeing issues where on sails lift it was attempting to access a mongo server on localhost.

I assume that since these connections are defined here and even though we were not actually using them, on sails lift, it attempts to connect to these.

I would recommend that they be commented out by default and possibly leaving just sails-disk uncommented since this is the default on a new install anyways.

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails-generate-backend/blob/master/templates/api/policies/sessionAuth.js#L20

I think by default, all responses should be parse-able JSON, following the lead of the blueprints

Hey,

Not sure exactly how to use this package as I'm still a bit new to Sails. After copying the project to a local directory, I have run:
npm install
node ./bin

but it complains about the scope.generatorType not being set. Where do I set this or do I need to install this generator in a different way?