A couple of years ago Fabric and Capistrano were the only serious options for automating the deployment of your applications.

Fast forward a couple of years and we now start to see mature alternatives in the JavaScript sphere.

Please find below some of those alternatives:

• Flightplan
• Deploy
• Gulp SSH
• Grunt FTP Deploy

If you want to learn more about all the other options out there, Chris Coyer has written down a brilliant overview which you should read Website Deployment: Let Us Count The Ways!.

JavaScript all the way.