ChangelogJS

This is a small customizable changelog generator.

It generates the changelog based on commit messages, not on release notes.

The following modes are avalible: | HTML | MD | JSON | | ---- | -- | ---- | | html-gh | md | json | | | | |

Installation

Type npm install @hrueger/changelogjs --global into your terminal.

Usage

changelogjs without any options. If a changelogjs.json file is found in the current folder or above, this is used as the configuration instead of the default values (see below).

Configuration

Create a changelogjs.json file ans specify the options below:

| Option | Description | Default | | ------ | ----------- | ------- | | title | The title of the Markdown and HTML page. | Changelog for your App | | logoUrl | The url of a Logo image to be displayed at the top of the HTML page. | Some placeholder image. | | logoAlt | The alternative text for the logo. | Logo | | sort | A boolean value whether the commit messages of one day should be sorted after their type or not. | true | | ignoreAuthors | An array of string values with authors which should be ignored. | ["greenkeeper[bot]"] | | headerLinks | An array of {url: "someUrl", text: "text to be displayed", active: false|true} objects to be displayed as links in the header of the HTML page. | [{url: "/", text: "Docs"}, {url: "#", text: "Changelog", active: true}] | | footerLinks | An array of {url: "someUrl", text: "text to be displayed"} objects to be displayed as links in the footer of the HTML page. | [{url: "#", text: "View on GitHub"}, {url: "https://github.com/hrueger/changelogjs", text: "Generated by ChangelogJS"}] | | modes | An array of {mode: "md"|"json"|"html-gh", file: "someFileName.ext"} objects defining which output files with which modes should be generated. See above for the avalible modes. | [{mode: "md", file: "CHANGELOG.md"}, {mode: "json", file: "CHANGELOG.json"}, {mode: "html-gh", file: "CHANGELOG.html"}] |

Contribute

Feel free to report any issues on GitHub or add new modes / features and create a pull request!

License

MIT