REST endpoints with Sails.js scaffolding

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I am new to node and new to sails. So this question may be pretty stupid, but I have used the "sails generate prospects" command to generate a REST api. I can access that api by visiting /api/v1/prospects (i set up the prefix).

I used chrome's postman extension to POST the following json array to that api, and it worked perfectly:

{
            "contactInfo" : {
                "firstName" : "john",
                "lastName" : "Stamos",
                "company" : "Full House",
                "title" : "Owner", 
                "phone" : "(352) 555-5555",
                "email" : "ken@contact.com",
                "website" : "http://fullhouse.com",
                "facebookUrl" : "http://facebook.com/fullhouse",
                "twitterUrl" : "http://twitter.com/fullhouse",
                "linkedInUrl" : "http://linkedin.com/fullhouse",
                "backgroundInfo" : "Ken and I first got together when Cynthia needed a web designer!",
                "firstContact" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
            },
            "address" : {
                "address" : "1234 Somewhere Street",
                "address2" : "Suite 1",
                "city" : "Ocala",
                "state" : "FL",
                "zipcode" : "35675"
            },
            "files" : [
                {
                    "filename" : "2345456324-23445745.jpg",
                    "folder" : "some folders name",
                    "insDate" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
                },
                {
                    "filename" : "2345332423-3453565462.jpg",
                    "folder" : "some folders name",
                    "insDate" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
                }
            ],
            "notes" : [
                {
                    "note" : "She emailed me friday about a new project",
                    "teamMemberId" : 0,
                    "insDate" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
                },
                {
                    "note" : "Just talked to her about a proposal.",
                    "teamMemberId" : 0,
                    "insDate" : "2014-07-13T12:00:00Z"
                }
            ],
            "access" : [],
            "blockAccess" : [1],
            "ownerId" : 0
        }

Here's my question... I was using firebase earlier, and while I know that Firebase is probably a hell of a complicated program and they worked months to get it to work, I love how they have REST endpoints set up within a record. Is this possible out of the box with sails.js?

By that i mean, assuming i imported this same exact json array into firebase, i could query the endpoint:

api/v1/prospects/1/address and I would get back:

{
                    "address" : "1234 Somewhere Street",
                    "address2" : "Suite 1",
                    "city" : "Ocala",
                    "state" : "FL",
                    "zipcode" : "35675"
                }

or if I queried api/v1/prospects/1/files, I would get back:

[
                    {
                        "filename" : "2345456324-23445745.jpg",
                        "folder" : "some folders name",
                        "insDate" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
                    },
                    {
                        "filename" : "2345332423-3453565462.jpg",
                        "folder" : "some folders name",
                        "insDate" : "2014-07-09T12:00:00Z"
                    }
                ]

Does anyone have any suggestions how I could put together this kind of an API with sails.js or express.js? I want to avoid using firebase for my api, but its looking really tempting unless I can get something like this working. Any tutorials, videos, resources etc where exactly this API scheme are created would be wonderful.

Thanks!

REST endpoints with Sails.js scaffolding

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