For node.js, there's also cash [1], shelljs [2], and an initial bash syntax parser [3], which actually implement POSIX shell subsets in Javascript (unlike this

For node.js, there's also cash [1], shelljs [2], and an initial bash syntax parser [3], which actually implement POSIX shell subsets in Javascript (unlike this project, which I understand calls out to a server-side bash process). Though cash and shelljs work synchronously only, which make them usable for build scripts etc. but not web services. [1]: https://github.com/dthree/cash https://github.com/dthree/cash [2]: https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs [3]: https://github.com/dthree/vorpal https://github.com/dthree/vorpal