Show HN: Shipit, pure JavaScript deployment tool used by Ghost blogging platform

Glad to see some more effort going into deployment tooling. I think the main goal of reinventing such tools in different languages is to get rid of the need of having dependencies outside of the current project&#x27;s platform, which makes sense, for me at least.<p>Shameless plug: I&#x27;m the author of Flightplan[1], a library which provides a simple, yet powerful interface to execute sequences of shell commands on local and remote host(s).<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/pstadler/flightplan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pstadler&#x2F;flightplan</a>

My childish brain pulled a full-Freudian with that name. Might want to capitalize the I maybe?

Looks very similar to: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/flightplan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;flightplan</a>

Nice, i prefer node over ruby, so maybe i&#x27;ll use this. For the same reason i prefer LESS over SASS (apart from the great performance improvement).

I am starting to see the light on all this tooling madness. It does not matter: languages and their ecosystems are powerful enough for any project to build their own tools. Projects are fond of their tools, so they give them fancy names and logos, and release them in hopes they are useful to somebody.

How is this different from Grunt or Gulp? Is it used with or in place of? After reading the docs I&#x27;m not sure I see the difference or the value add.

Is ShipIt an Ansible replacement? The idea of Ansible is good, but I would like a JavaScript based tool and avoid Ruby. Edit: i meant Python

What&#x27;s the difference between build tool, like gulp and deployment tool like Shipit?

It would be cool to see a tutorial on configuring Shipit to do Ghost deployments.

Where is Ghost using this tool?

Sweet, i may actually use it, more documentation would be nice though.

Why Javascript?