grunt-release-build

Grunt plugin to build a new release for a package. Release a patch, minor or major release. Allows git-tag and git-push to remote repo/branch.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-release-build --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-release-build');

The "releasebuild" task

Increment versions in manifests files (use git tag to discover the actual version)

Run build tasks, update manifests, release a patch, minor or major release.

Allows git-tag and git-push to remote repository (allows choosing if several remotes are in use).

• for now branch master is assumed (local and remote)

Typical use: a package distributes its files in a distribution directory; the directory is part of the repo.

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named releasebuild to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  releasebuild: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

type

Type: String Default value: patch

The release type according the semver options. Allows: patch|minor|major|premajor|preminor|prepatch|prerelease

silent

Type: Boolean Default value: false

With the default value (false), all writable/critical operations will be preceded by a quastion confirmation to the user

tasks

Type: Object Default value: {build: ['build']}

An object to reference the grunt tasks responsable to build the package. tasks.build : String|[String]

If an array with tasks is passed, they will be executed in sequence; any error in one of them will stop the process.

commit

Type: String Default value: Release version v%v

The commit message to use when commiting changes. %v will be replaced with the version number to be released.

tag

Type: String Default value: Version %v

The tag message to use when creating the release tag. %v will be replaced with the version number to be released.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, a minor version is released with "no confirmations steps" and executing the clean, test and build tasks.

grunt.initConfig({
  releasebuild: {
    minor: {
      options: {
        type: 'minor',
        silent: true,
        tasks: {
          build: ['clean', 'test', 'build']
        }
      }
    }    
  }
});

If in package.json | bower.json version is '0.0.0'. The result will be:

• in those files version will be '0.1.0'
• the tasks 'clean', 'test', 'build' will run
• the changes produced will be added to git
• the changes will be comitted with a commit message 'Release version v0.1.0'
• there will be a tag v0.1.0 with message 'Version 0.1.0'
• the brach 'master' will be pushed to the master branch in remote name choosen
  • if only one remote exists it will be used without question the user

So supose that build task produce a dist folder with release files this folder will be included to the git repo.

Contribution

Post bugs and feature requests to the Github issue tracker. In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

• Contributions and comments are welcome.

Authors

• João Carvalho
  • @jmmtcarvalho
  • GitHub

License

Copyright (c) 2015 João Carvalho

Licensed under the MIT License