NPM-Version GitHub Action

NPM-Version allows you to change the version of your projects package.json file in a simple GitHub action.

It is based on the NPM version cli command.

Integrating with GitHub actions

GitHub actions are a flexible way to automatically build your node project. I have found working on several projects the need to change the version of the package json, especially on a mono repo with multiple node projects.

Prerequisites

Make sure that you have

• a GitHub account with Actions enabled
• an npm project

How the NPM-Version action works

The command npm version is ran with the parameters specified, this in turn will change the version stored in the package.json

How to use the NPM-Version GitHub action

An example of workflow

name: run npm-version pipeline
on: push
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@master
        
      - name: 'change version'
        uses: reedyuk/npm-version@1.1.1
        with:
          version: '1.0.1'
          package: 'subproject-directory/'
          git-tag-version: 'true'

Variables

• version: The version you want to change your package json to.
• package(optional): defaults to current directory, but you can specify a location otherwise.
• git-tag-version(optional): defaults to false, if true, it will tag and commit the version - the same behaviour as git-tag-version in npm.

Notes

If using git-tag-version, it is recommended you do something as mentioned in this blog post. https://wildwolf.name/github-actions-how-to-avoid-running-the-same-workflow-multiple-times/