NPM Auto Version
This script is used to automatically generate new NPM versions based on Git tags when publishing.
Usage
Recommended contents of your package.json:{
"version": "1.0.0",
"scripts": {
"prepublish": "npm-auto-version",
"postpublish": "git push origin --tags"
}
}
This will (under the hood) do the following when you run
npm publish
:- Get the MAJOR.MINOR version from your package.json version field (call them M and N respectively) - Get the list of git tags that match
M.N.*
- Use semver to generate the next appropriate patch value M.N.P
- Update the package.json version field with M.N.P
- Generate a new git tag in the NPM syntax: vM.N.P
- Publish the package to NPM (via npm publish
)
- Push the tags to your git originRequirements
This script requires:- Node 0.12+ - Git client and grep installed in
$PATH
- Shell that supports pipe |