package-publishing

This is a test repo for npm publish and github tagging leading to gh release.

Versioning

major.minor.patch methodology, this is not breaking any ground in it implementation. Using npm version patch, npm version minor and npm version major. This process will incrememnt the version number automatucally.

npm publish

The npm cli contains all the necessary methods to do this process manually using npm publish --access public this does have the public access switch applied to it for this demo, this will not be necessary for the actual implementation.

git tag

Standard tagging in git is enough for us to be able to distinguish different tagged versions and download then, git tag -a "v1.0.4" -m "A message." then a tag push using git push origin v1.0.4.

github release

This will take tagging one step further, this will have a npmesque release page and downloading correctly with npm install this method also allows for the latest tag. This method will allow us to distinguish pre-release, release-candidate and alpha versionsof the same code and we can handle the scenarios separately.