Release message creator

Create a formatted release message from a standard-release changelog.

Installation

npm install -g @s3pweb/release-message-creator

Usage

create-release-message

The create-release-message command creates a release message with a title and the last version changes. It takes 3 optionals arguments:

• -f The path to the changelog file.
• -m A message template with up to 2 placeholders (%s) for the new version and the old version (in that order).
• -w The full webhook url to send the message to. (e.g. https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123456789/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).

create-release-message -f <changelog location> -m <message> -w <webhook discord>

create-release-message -f ./CHANGELOG.md -m "Release API X, version %s (replacing %s) :" -w ${WEBHOOK}

Result:

Release API X, version 0.0.5 (replacing 0.0.4):

## [0.0.5] (2022-05-24)

### Features
* **actions:** add an automatic release action 
* **webhook:** add axios to call the webhook 

create-github-message

The create-release-message command creates a JSON string compatible with GitHub API. It takes 1 optional argument:

• -f The path to the changelog file.

create-github-message -f <changelog location>

create-github-message -f ./CHANGELOG.md

Result:

"## [0.0.5](https://github.com/s3pweb/release-message-creator/compare/v0.0.4...v0.0.5) (2022-05-24)\n\n### Features\n* **actions:** add an automatic release action ([5589f88](https://github.com/s3pweb/release-message-creator/commit/5589f88366c2690c1648fb8d82b70affac1c1904))\n* **webhook:** add axios to call the webhook ([830adb9](https://github.com/s3pweb/release-message-creator/commit/830adb9afb61dbd33823f31e8606525c9d59999f))"