web-app-octopus-publisher

⚠️ This is an internal tool used by the TV web team @ NRK
The package is public only for ease of use with npx in CI
settings so we dont have to provide npx --userconfig <.npmrc>

Simple NodeJS cli tool for:

• packaging node web apps
• posting package to octopus deploy
• generating release notes
• updating release notes on octopus release

For the pack->push->releaseNotes flow to work the Octopus project needs to be set up with automatic release creation

The tool uses name from ${process.cwd()}/package.json for:

• octopus feed id
• octopus project name
• pm2 process name

The package exposes a bin (waop) if installed locally or globally.

Usage

Typical use case for node apps in the PS.Web repo, use npx in npm script and be explicit about the version (@1.0.x)

{
  "scripts": {
    "predeploy": "npm prune --production",
    "deploy": "npx @nrk/[email protected] publish -w <AzureProdAppName>"
  }
}

Or, install globally and use exported bin waop

> npm i -g @nrk/ps-octo-publisher
> waop publish

Display help

> npx @nrk/ps-octo-publisher -h
> npx @nrk/ps-octo-publisher notes -h
> npx @nrk/ps-octo-publisher publish -h

Generate Release notes

Generating release notes (commit history) in current directory.

Release notes Options

| Name | Alias | Default | | ---- | ----------- | ------- | | -u | --url | '' | | -w | --webApp | '' | | -o | --outFile | '' | | -p | --plain | false | | -d | --debug | false |

Using waop notes

Options -u and -w are used for the same purpose, but -w is inserted into a template https://${w}.azurewebsites.net/ping and -u is used as is. The options expect the resulting url to respond with json that satisfies:

interface Ping {
  hash?: string; // commit hash
  date?: string; // json date
  env?: {
    DEPLOY_TIME?: string; // json date
  };
}

If either of those properties exist they are used to determine which commits are to be included in the release notes so that commies = [<prop>...master].

• waop notes - generate notes from last 5 commits in current folder
• waop notes -p - generate notes as plain text (no markdown links)
• waop notes -o releaseNotes.md - output to file
• waop notes -u https://tv.nrk.no/ping - provide url
• waop notes -w web-header-prod-we - provide Azure Web App name

Publish

Packages app in zip and pushes to Octopus Deploy. On publish success tries to set release notes on the auto-created release.

For release notes to be exact commit diff from what is currently in production, provide the -w option with the Azure Web App name (e.g. -w tv-web-search-prod-we)

Publish Options

| Name | Alias | Default | | ---- | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | -g | --globs | ['*.*', 'dist/**', 'static/**', 'scripts/**', 'node_modules/**'] | | -c | --pm2 | true | | -w | --webApp | '' | | -k | --octoKey | '' (by default read from process.env['OCTOPUS_API_KEY']) | | -s | --octoServer | 'https://madeploy04/' | | -v | --buildVersion | '' (by default read from process.env['BuildVersion']) | | -n | --dryRun | '' |

By default octoKey and buildVersion is read from env['OCTOPUS_API_KEY'] and env.BuildVersion respectively. Passing those variables in does nothing if the environment variables are defined.

Using waop publish

• waop publish -v 0.1.1 -k <api-key> - publish version 0.1.1
• waop publish -g dist/** - publish only content in dist/**
• waop publish --pm2 false - publish and do't add pm2.config.json
• waop publish --w tv-web-search-prod-we - publish and call https://tv-web-search-prod-we.azurewebsites.net/ping to get commit hash / build date to use for release notes.

Git formatting patterns

There are many alternatives we could use for the commit history.
Some of the placeholders that can be used in --pretty=format:"" are:

• '%h': abbreviated commit hash
• '%an': author name
• '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap)
• '%ae': author email
• '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap)
• '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
• '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
• '%ar': author date, relative
• '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
• '%ai': author date, ISO 8601-like format
• '%aI': author date, strict ISO 8601 format
• '%cn': committer name
• '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog[1] or git-blame[1])
• '%ce': committer email
• '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog[1] or git-blame[1])
• '%cd': committer date (format respects --date= option)
• '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
• '%cr': committer date, relative
• '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
• '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601-like format
• '%cI': committer date, strict ISO 8601 format
• '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of git-log[1]
• '%D': ref names without the " (", ")" wrapping.
• '%e': encoding
• '%s': subject
• '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
• '%b': body
• '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
• '%N': commit notes