@carbounaut/release-docs

semantic-release shareable configuration to publish Angular and Ionic GitHub projects and to deploy the changelog file as a JSON or HTML format to an external GitHub project.

Plugins

This shareable configuration uses the following plugins:

• @semantic-release/commit-analyzer
• @semantic-release/release-notes-generator
• @semantic-release/changelog
• @semantic-release/github
• @semantic-release/exec
• @semantic-release/git
• semantic-release-slack-bot

Summary

This shareable configuration performs the following actions:

1. Analyze commits (@semantic-release/commit-analyzer)
2. Generate changelog content (@semantic-release/release-notes-generator)
3. Create or update a changelog file generated by step 2 (@semantic-release/changelog)
4. Update the package version to the next release version (release-docs-adjust-version)
5. Commit release assets to the project's git repository with the commit message chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci] ${nextRelease.notes}. The following files are committed:
   • package-lock.json
   • package.json
   • CHANGELOG.md
   • config.xml
6. Publish a GitHub release and comment on released Pull Requests/Issues (@semantic-release/github)
7. Upload the new generated CHANGELOG to a S3 bucket (release-docs-changelog-upload-s3)
8. Send a release notification on Slack from a slack bot (semantic-release-slack-bot)

Install

$ npm install --save-dev semantic-release@17 @carbonaut/release-docs

Usage

Project Setup

When installing this package for the first time, the following shareable configuration (.releaserc.json) is automatically added to your project root folder:

{
  "extends": "@carbonaut/release-docs"
}

Add the following semantic-release command into the scripts section on your package.json:

...
"scripts": {
    "semantic-release": "semantic-release"
  }
...

Environment Variables Configuration

Ensure that your CI configuration has the following environment variables set:

• GH_TOKEN: A GitHub personal access token;

• RELEASE_DOCS_PROJECT_ID: Unique project identifier. It will be used as the changelog file title on the S3 bucket;

• RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS access key from the S3 bucket where the changelog file will be hosted;

• RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS secret access key from the S3 bucket where the changelog file will be hosted;

• SLACK_WEBHOOK: Slack webhook created when adding app to workspace.

Releasing Locally

$ RELEASE_DOCS_PROJECT_ID=<project ID> RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS access key> RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS secret access key> RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_BUCKET=<AWS bucket> GH_TOKEN=<GitHub token> npm run semantic-release --dry-run=false --no-ci

Running in CI

First, setup all the required environment variables on your CI environment. Then just call the following script in your CI configuration file to trigger the release process:

$ npm run semantic-release

Scripts

The following scripts are also available to be used separately.

release-docs-adjust-version

Update the package version to the next release version on the following files:

• package.json: property version (this file is required)
• config.xml: attribute version (this file is optional)

release-docs-adjust-version --version=<version>

release-docs-changelog-upload-s3

Upload the new generated CHANGELOG to a S3 bucket:

1. Convert the CHANGELOG.md file to JSON format;
2. Send the parsed changelog content to the S3 bucket RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_BUCKET. This file will be available at https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/<RELEASE_DOCS_AWS_BUCKET>/<RELEASE_DOCS_PROJECT_ID>.json.

release-docs-changelog-upload-s3 --key=<ṕroject ID> --awsAccessKeyId=<AWS access key> --awsSecretAccessKey<AWS secret access key> --awsBucket=<AWS bucket>"

Overwritten Options

This following options are set by this shareable config:

| Option | Value | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | @semantic-release/exec: prepareCmd | release-docs-adjust-version --version=${nextRelease.version} | | @semantic-release/exec: successCmd | release-docs-changelog-upload-s3 --key=<ṕroject ID> --awsAccessKeyId=<AWS access key> --awsSecretAccessKey<AWS secret access key> --awsBucket=<AWS bucket>" | | @semantic-release/git: assets | ["package-lock.json", "package.json", "CHANGELOG.md", "config.xml"] | | @semantic-release/git: message | chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci] ${nextRelease.notes} |

Other options use their default values. See each plugin documentation for available options.