@prescott/commitlint-preset

A common commitlint preset for personal TypeScript projects.

IMPORTANT NnOTE

This preset requires global installation of commitizen. Make sure commitizen is installed globally:

$ npm install commitizen -g

Local Setup

If you want to lint commit message via Git hook to enforce commit message style in local dev environment, Follow these instructions.

In this setup, You have to install additional husky dependency.

$ npm install @prescott/commitlint-preset husky --save-dev

Add the following to package.json

{
  "config": {
    "commitizen": {
      "path": "cz-conventional-changelog"
    }
  },
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "commit-msg": "commitlint -E HUSKY_GIT_PARAMS"
    }
  },
  "commitlint": {
    "extends": [
      "@prescott/commitlint-preset"
    ]
  }
}

Done. There is no any additional steps to check commit message. commitlint will be automatically executed every commits.

CI Setup

If you want to lint commit message via CI environment, Follow these instructions.

In this setup, husky is not required.

Add the following to package.json

{
  "config": {
    "commitizen": {
      "path": "cz-conventional-changelog"
    }
  },
  "commitlint": {
    "extends": [
      "@prescott/commitlint-preset"
    ]
  }
}

Done. Please follow below steps to execute commitlint.

Github Actions

Add following to workflow.yml

  steps:
    - name: CommitLint
      run: npx commitlint --from ${{ github.event.before || github.event.head || 'master' }} --verbose

Travis CI

Install additional dependency:

$ npm install @commitlint/travis-cli --save-dev

Add following to travis.yml

# travis.yml
language: node_js
script:
  - commitlint-travis

Other CI Environments

Execute following to check commit message:

$ npx run commitlint --from [COMMIT_SHA1] --to [COMMIT_SHA1]

Commit Helpers

cz-cli provides git extension to create semantic commits.

Simply use git cz instead of using git commit.