node-npm-typescript-publish

Spike to publish a typescript Node package to NPM

This repo was bootstraped with my node typescript project boilerplate. It uses the @changesets/cli tool to manage the Node package versioning, changelog and release process.

It's also configured with a GitHub action that uses changesets/action@v1 to create a release pull request, whenever new changes are detected on main branch. Once this PR is merged, it will automatically bump the package version, create a release tag, trigger a release on GitHub and publishes the package to NPM.

The way it works is by running the changesets tool when releasing the package, which creates a temporary file associated to the changes of the version being released. Then, when this file is pushed to the main branch, the changesets action detects that a release PR must be created. This PR removes the temporary file, and updates the needed files for a successful release!

Note: The release PR is only created in the presence of the temporary file created by the changesets tool!

Scripts

• npm run release to create the temporary changesets file
• npm run publish to publish the package to NPM

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank @mattpocock for introducing me to changesets tool! Here's Matt video on it:

If you found this spike useful, you can generate a custom project that uses the same tools for building programs and libraries. Find out more at https://github.com/dart-pacotes/.bricks/tree/master/pacote_web