test-auto-release-npm-package

How to implement

• copy .github/workflows/npm-publish.yml to your project, made some adjustments, if necessary
  • dependency on test
  • remove test flow if you have separate CI/CD for testing (with complicated)
• set up secret for project NPM_TOKEN
• every time you push a new tag it will create a new publishing

Flow

Manual / automatic

• do tasks
• before release create pr:
  • easy way npm version minor --no-git-tag-version with bumping
• after merge bump release, trigger git action by running
  npm run create-tag
  it should switch to main, create tag based on version in package json and push it
• wait and check create release after git action done )

To do it Automatic

Note: Not all changes in the main branch can be triggered as a new publication

Update npm-publish.yml flow on: push: branches: [ main ]

and then:

• open pr
• do not forget before marge to run npm version minor

Q&A

Cannot get access to private repository

npm publish --access public

TODO

npm version minor --no-git-tag-version && git push --tags $(grep -m1 version package.json | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed 's/[", ]//g')

Links

• Good example of workflows: https://github.com/MylesBorins/node-osc/tree/main/.github/workflows
• https://stedolan.github.io/jq