changesets-release-it-plugin

Warning This plugin is highly experimental, use at your own risk

In particular, this plugin does not yet properly support monorepos

The idea of this plugin is to combine the excellent changelog management from changesets with the nice and simple release management of release-it.

My main gripe with changesets is their over-reliance on the provided github action to perform vital steps such as github releases. I like the semi-manual approach that release-it takes, this makes the CI setup simpler as it can just focus on building the git tags.

This plugin essentially lets changesets generate the changelog and bump the package version, using changeset version, and then hands off to release-it for the remaining steps, using the parsed changelog and version that changesets decided on.

The changelog parsing is lifted verbatim from the changesets github action.

Installation

npm install --save-dev changesets-release-it-plugin

Setup

At the moment, the extra npm config is required, as changesets sets the version too early in the cycle, and the npm plugin doesn't realise the version has been updated. I'm reasonably confident this can be improved with better use of the plugin lifecycles, but for now this will have to do. NOTE: If you don't use the publish feature of the npm plugin, you can simply disable it since this plugin replaces the npm version call.

"plugins": {
  "changesets-release-it-plugin": {}
}
"npm": {
  "ignoreVersion": true,
  "allowSameVersion": true
}