How to establish an SSH connection using Node.js

Question

I want to make an SSH connection using Node.js or JavaScript so that I connect it through a web page and run the commands. How can I do this?

Answer 1

There is a very good library, node-ssh. It supports promises too. Have a look at that.

Code copied from the official documentation:

var path, node_ssh, ssh, fs

fs = require('fs')
path = require('path')
node_ssh = require('node-ssh')
ssh = new node_ssh()

ssh.connect({
    host: 'localhost',
    username: 'steel',
    privateKey: '/home/steel/.ssh/id_rsa'
})

Or

ssh.connect({
    host: 'localhost',
    username: 'steel',
    privateKey: fs.readFileSync('/home/steel/.ssh/id_rsa')
})
    .then(function() {})

Edit-I have tried this code in my system and its working

var path, node_ssh, ssh, 
fs 
fs = require('fs') 
path = require('path') 
node_ssh = require('node-ssh') 
ssh = new node_ssh() 
ssh.connect(
    { host: 'Your host', username: 'username', password: 'yourpass', 
 }) 
.then(function(response) {console.log(response)})