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

by neoziro • 11 years ago

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tmikaeld• 11 years ago

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

neoziro9• 11 years ago

If you need more documentation about deploying using Shipit, you can find it in the deploy set of tasks: https://github.com/shipitjs/shipit-deploy

marmoto• 11 years ago

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

xchaotic• 11 years ago

I shipmy pants

stevekemp• 11 years ago

My first thought was related to the name too - it's an unfortunate collision with Brad Fitzpatricks' shipit:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ShipIt/

baudehlo• 11 years ago

It's clearly a port of Brad's ShipIt from Perl to JS

pmp0x2• 11 years ago

Looks very similar to: https://www.npmjs.com/package/flightplan

neoziro9• 11 years ago

Yes, it looks like, I didn't know this project.

pmp0x2• 11 years ago

But ShipIt seems to be more modular and event driven while flightplan is just a rundown of various commands...

andrewchilds• 11 years ago

You might also be interested in Overcast (I'm the author): https://www.npmjs.com/package/overcast

ojanik• 11 years ago

Why Javascript?

Kudos• 11 years ago

Shipit was built to be a Capistrano alternative for people who don't know ruby, or who experienced some issues with it. If you want to write tasks in JavaScript and enjoy the node ecosystem, Shipit is also for you.

roelvanhintum3• 11 years ago

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

neoziro9• 11 years ago

For Less and Sass, it's not very annoying because you don't have to write a lot of ruby code. But writting a complete deployment script if you don't know ruby is very hard... I love to be able to use my favorite JS modules in my deploy script, that's why I wrote Shipit.

roelvanhintum3• 11 years ago

That is one solid point. Thanks for helping all of us out!

nailer3• 11 years ago

If you run `npm install -g sass` you'll get the native JS version of SASS.

roelvanhintum3• 11 years ago

Thanks, didn't know that. Right now i was using libsass for some projects. It compiles faster than the ruby sass.

joshcrowder• 11 years ago

The problem is that native sass is not the same version as ruby sass its infuriating.

halfdan2• 11 years ago

Where is Ghost using this tool?

fredoliveira• 11 years ago

I'd guess they use it on their hosted platform.

halfdan2• 11 years ago

Would be my guess too, but other than a single PR from one of the core devs I can't find any connection between the projects. Is there any source for this?

neoziro9• 11 years ago

They used in to deploy projects internally, same for Le Monde. Shipit is not designed to Shipit projects over a lot of servers. It's designed to Shipit small projects or even to ship code on hardware (like raspberry).

frik2• 11 years ago

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

mateuszf• 11 years ago

Ansible is written in Python.

treehau5• 11 years ago

what about ruby makes you want to avoid it? strictly curious

frik2• 11 years ago

Sorry, I meant Python. I am familar with Algol syntax based languages and prefer C/C++/ObjectC/C#/Java/PHP/JS/Go/Rust/Lua/Basic/Pascal/Ada/Smalltalk/Scheme over Python/Ruby/Haskel.

pyre• 11 years ago

You can do most of your Ansible work without needing to touch Python. I'm a Python programmer, and I've never needed to touch Python (other than running Ansible, which is a Python program) with respect to an Ansible setup.

neoziro9• 11 years ago

Shipit can be an Ansible replacement, but there is no command abstraction to Shipit. Shipit is designed to quickly deploy a project on a set of servers not to configure an entire server.

kh_hk• 11 years ago

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.

neoziro9• 11 years ago

When will you release a deployment tool in Haxe?

jzig2• 11 years ago

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

neoziro9• 11 years ago

Try deploying just with grunt and you will see the difference.

thoughtpalette• 11 years ago

The grunt-aws module makes deploying to S3 and cloudfront a breeze. We switched to this for all our FE devs awhile ago and it's been painless.

https://github.com/jpillora/grunt-aws

nailer3• 11 years ago

It leverages 'orchestrate' (which is what gulp uses) to do deploys across a variety of hosts, keeping the old versions around should you need to switch back easily.

jzig2• 11 years ago

But why wouldn't I just use Gulp then?

rizalp• 11 years ago

What's the difference between build tool, like gulp and deployment tool like Shipit?

neoziro9• 11 years ago

Shipit can run local and SSH commands easily on a group of servers, there is also a set of tasks ready for deployment.

s_kilk• 11 years ago

So it's like a javascript version of fabric?

pstadler• 11 years ago

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's platform, which makes sense, for me at least.

Shameless plug: I'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).

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/flightplan

Dasuchin• 11 years ago

I'm a huge fan of Flightplan. I used it extensively at a past job and added it into our default stack. Every site we worked with (60+ at the time I left) was using Flightplan for deployment.

astrojams• 11 years ago

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

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