Simplifies module releases to NPM via Yarn

Why?

For simplifying the steps when publishing to NPM (especially if from a subfolder):

• copying the root package.json into the build folder
• cleaning it up to remove dev deps
• navigating into that folder
• incrementing the appropriate version number
• publishing
• making sure that version number makes it back down to the root project to keep it all in sync
• navigating back out to the root

Installation

yarn add -D @supergeneric/yarn-release

Exposed Commands

• Just one: yarn release --major|minor|patch [options]

Options

-V, --version     output the version number
-M, --major       major release X.#.# for breaking changes
-m, --minor       minor release #.X.# non-breaking for feature additions
-p, --patch       patch release #.#.X for patch fixes/tweaks
-s, --src <dir>   directory to build/release from (default=./src)
-d, --dest <dir>  temporary build directory (default=./.dist)
-t, --test        build, but do not publish (great for testing locally)
-c, --nocleanup   leave build folder after publishing (great for testing locally)
-v, --verbose     writes a bunch of extra stuff to the console
-h, --help        output usage information
--public          equivalent to npm publish --access=public

Example Usage (package.json)

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "do some stuff",
    "release:major": "yarn build && release --major --src=build",
    "release:minor": "yarn build && release --minor --src=build",
    "release:patch": "yarn build && release --patch --src=build",
  }
}

Caveats

• This build will do a generic yarn publish without specific --access=public flag, meaning it will default to private if it's never been published. Solution is to publish once with that flag set, then use release to maintain.