The following commands respect packageManager field first then devEngines.packageManager.name in package.json, but fallback to npm if none is specified.

npx lint-commit-message <path>

The <path> must point to a text file containing commit message that complies with the following pattern:

<type>[!]: <subject>

Where

• <type> can be either feat, fix, build or chore.
• ! indicates that the commit contains a breaking change.
• <subject> is the actual commit message where the first word must be written in lower cases.

Usage example with lefthook:

# lefthook.yml
commit-msg:
  commands:
    lint:
      run: npx lint-commit-message {1}

npx make-next-release [--dry-run]

This command is supposed to be run on GitHub Actions. It will run npm version <new-version>, which <new-version> is automatically derived from your commit messages according to the table below and then it creates a new entry on GitHub Releases.

| Commit message type | Trigger | | ------------------- | -------------------------- | | ! | npm version major | | feat | npm version minor | | fix or build | npm version patch | | Others | Does not run npm version |

// package.json
{
	"scripts": {
		"preversion": "npm run test",
		"version": "npm run build && git add lib",
		"postversion": "npm publish"
	}
}

By supplying --dry-run argument, it uses git push --dry-run, npm version --ignore-scripts and creates a new draft GitHub Release entry instead, which you may want to manually delete the draft release afterward.

# .github/workflows/push.yml
on:
   push:
     branches: [master]

permissions:
  contents: write # Grant Git push and GitHub Release write access to GITHUB_TOKEN

 jobs:
   release:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0 # Ensure entire Git history and Git tags are accessible

       - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
           node-version: 22

       - run: npm install @thisismanta/semantic-version@11

       - run: npx make-next-release
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}