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Automated releases for npm packages.

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Automated releases for npm packages.

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Automated releases for npm packages.

Release npm package based on commit metadata

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Automated releases for npm packages.

uses: mikeal/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in mikeal/merge-release

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merge-release

GitHub Action for automated npm publishing.

This Action publishes a package to npm. It is meant to be used on every successful merge to master but you'll need to configure that workflow yourself. You can look to the .github/workflows/push.yml file in this project as an example.

Workflow

  • Check for the latest version number published to npm.
  • Lookup all commits between the git commit that triggered the action and the latest publish.
    • If the package hasn't been published or the prior publish does not include a git hash, we'll only pull the commit data that triggered the action.
  • Based on the commit messages, increment the version from the lastest release.
    • If the string "BREAKING CHANGE" is found anywhere in any of the commit messages or descriptions the major version will be incremented.
    • If a commit message begins with the string "feat" then the minor version will be increased. This works for most common commit metadata for feature additions: "feat: new API" and "feature: new API".
    • All other changes will increment the patch version.
  • Publish to npm using the configured token.
  • Push a tag for the new version to GitHub.

Configuration

You can configure some aspects of merge-release action by passing some environmental variables.

  • GITHUB_TOKEN (required)
    • Github token to allow tagging the version.
  • NPM_AUTH_TOKEN (required)
    • NPM Auth Token to publish to NPM, read here how to setup it as a secret.
  • DEPLOY_DIR
    • The path where the dist package.json is to run npm publish. Defaults to the root dir.
  • SRC_PACKAGE_DIR
    • The path where the src package.json is found. Defaults to the root dir.
  • NPM_REGISTRY_URL
    • NPM Registry URL to use. defaults to: https://registry.npmjs.org/

merge-release will use npm publish unless you've defined a publish script in your package.json.

- uses: mikeal/merge-release@master
  env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      NPM_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_AUTH_TOKEN }}
      DEPLOY_DIR: my/deploy/dir
      SRC_PACKAGE_DIR: my/src/package