Is there a bettery way to work with nested(associated) models in Sails JS?

I've connected my SailsJs app to a Mongodb database. I'm working on an analytic application. These are the major models in my application:

User Project Report Event

A user can have many projects, a project can have many reports and a report can have many events. I have created these relations using collection and model properties of my models attributes. My problem is why is it so hard to find events of specific user? I wish I could do this:

User.
  find({id: id}).
  populate('projects').
  populate('reports').
  populate('events').
  then(function (eventsOfMyUser) {
  });

but since only projects is an attribute of my User model only the first populate works. Shouldn't be an easier way to find a deep model rather than writing nasty and confusing async loops in my controller or model code?

At the moment sails doesn't have any kind of nested population. The issue to reference: https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/issues/308

Worth saying there's a pull request to add nested population: https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/pull/1052

Pull request isn't merged at the moment but you can use it installing one directly with

npm i Atlantis-Software/waterline#deepPopulate

With it you can do something like .populate('projects.reports ...)'.

Right now there is a hook that allows you to do that. It is changing waterline with Offshore. Offshore is extended fork of Waterline with deep populate, cache mechanism.

sails-hook-orm-offshore

In the road map right now there are: