Create changelog

[UncleDave]

Must be done before v1.0.0

[UncleDave]

I've been looking into Conventional Commits as a lot of the big boys (angular, aurelia, ng-bootstrap, etc) are using it as a system to automatically generate a changelog and bump their package version.

By using this approach via Standard Version our release process could be as follows:

npm run release - standard-version
npm run publish - git push --follow-tags origin master; npm publish

And we'd be done, that would auto-generate a changelog, bump the version number, and publish to npm/push to git.

It's well worth a read and I'd be up for trying it out. Commit messages on branches can still be whatever we like, as long as when the branch is merged it gets squashed into a single commit that is conventional, and any commits to master should be conventional.

Angular's changelog as an example of the end product.

[aberezkin]

Also, I've thought about creating new development branch where we can merge several PRs before merging changes in master and bumping the version. What do you think about it?

[UncleDave]

Yes gitflow works for me, master essentially being the production branch.