Open Source JavaScript Deployment Tools

Lerna is a tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages. Many times splitting a large codebase into several independently versioned packages is necessary for code sharing. However, this can make testing and tracking changes across repositories quite difficult. As a solution to this, many projects organize their codebases into multi-package repositories. It is Lerna's job to manage these multi-package repositories, optimizing workflow and reducing the time and space requirements for numerous copies of packages in development and build environments. Lerna's primary functionalities are bootstrap, which links dependencies in the repo together; and publish, which helps publish any updated packages. It is important to note that Lerna is not a deployment tool for serverless monorepos.

Install shipit command line tools and shipit-deploy in your project. Shipit is an automation engine and a deployment tool. Shipit provides a good alternative to Capistrano or other build tools. It is easy to deploy or to automate simple tasks on your remote servers. Shipit emits the init event once initialized, before any tasks are run. You can add custom event and listen to events. You can overwrite all default variables defined as part of the default object. If you can't call shipit.initConfig(...) right away because you need to get data asynchronously to do so, you can return a promise from the module. List of files excluded in copyFromRemote or copyToRemote methods. Allows you to ‘become’ another user, different from the user that logged into the machine (remote user). If shallowClone is set to false, this directory will be used to clone the repository before deploying it.

Strider is an Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform written in Node.js and Ember.js, with MongoDB as a backing store. Strider is designed to be easy to set up and use, with reasonable defaults and automation and minimal extraneous UI. It is also extremely customizable through plugins, which allows it to add hooks for performing arbitrary actions during build, modify the database schema, create or modify user interfaces, and so much more! Strider comes with a stylish dashboard and plenty of great features that meet the needs of the majority of users right out of the box.