Preface

This is basically the release workflow defined by Gulp as a plugin to avoid code duplication,

For more info: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/automate-release-workflow.md

What it does?

1. Bump version in package.json, it follows SemVer semantic versioning, by default the patch version is bumped, but can be changed to release a minor or major version as well via a CLI param. (see below)
2. Update the CHANGELOG.md file with a link to the commits in between the previous and current version.
3. Commit the changes in current workspace.
4. Push the changes to the master branch.
5. Create and push a tag that correspond to the new version.

Usage

npm install --save-dev gulp-release-flows

Create a gulpfile.js in your project with:

// add to gulpfile.js
var gulp = require('gulp');
// pass along gulp reference to have tasks imported
require('gulp-release-flows')(gulp);

To see all imported tasks, run:

gulp -T

To release, run:

gulp build:release

This will bump the patch version, minor / major can be bumped by the following command:

gulp build:release --bump minor

Or

gulp build:release --bump major