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feat: promote npm edge tag to latest when prerelease is promoted #57

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26 changes: 25 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/release.yml
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on:
release:
types:
- created
- published
- released
jobs:
# When a prerelease is promoted to a full release, update the npm latest tag
promote:
if: github.event.action == 'released'
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v6
- name: Install node 20
uses: actions/setup-node@v6
with:
node-version: '20'
registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org
- name: Promote edge to latest
run: |
VERSION=$(echo "$TAG_NAME" | sed 's/^v//')
PACKAGE=$(node -p "require('./package.json').name")
npm dist-tag add "$PACKAGE@$VERSION" latest
echo "::notice title=Promoted $VERSION to latest::The latest tag now points to $VERSION (was edge-only)"
env:
TAG_NAME: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_DEPLOY_TOKEN}}
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Race condition causes promote job to fail on non-prerelease

Medium Severity

When a fresh non-prerelease is published, GitHub fires both published and released as separate workflow runs. The lightweight promote job (~15s) will execute npm dist-tag add well before the deploy job finishes installing, linting, testing, and publishing the package. This causes promote to fail because the version doesn't exist on npm yet. While the deploy job correctly sets latest for non-prereleases, every fresh non-prerelease publish will produce a failed workflow run in the GitHub Actions UI. Since these are separate runs, needs can't create a dependency between them.

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deploy:
if: github.event.action == 'published'
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
env:
TERM: xterm
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