I love how Fabric makes dealing with deployments to multiple servers easy (with proper support for SSH etc). However, since ours is s node.js based project, it would be great if we could do this in Javascript rather than Python.
What is the closest node.js/Javascript equivalent of Fabric? (If there is one!)
I wrote Flightplan, a node.js library which does exactly what you're asking for. It basically let's you run sequences of shell commands against your localhost and different sets of remote hosts.
Fabric is basically a high-level ssh client. Answers to this question list several Javascript ssh clients: