CI/CD

[psimk]

The process of publishing a pota package is fully manual now:

1. make changes and commit them
2. do npm version <newversion>
3. do npm publish
4. commit the new version with a message signifying the new version

Ideally, we would replace the last 3 steps with of a github action, that could be manually triggered for any of our packages. Later on, we can add onto the actions and have them test the code as well (e.g. #55)

[crevulus]

Can you lay out exactly what steps we need here? I have a couple of scripts we should be able to adapt.

[psimk]

@crevulus
I updated the description, hope the task is a bit clearer now 😄

[MickJasker]

You can use the release functionality to make this easier:

name: Release

on:
  release:
    types:
      - published

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}

      - name: Use Node.js 16
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 16
          always-auth: true
          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: yarn install

      - name: Upgrade version
        run: |
          git config user.name github-actions
          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
          npm version --no-git-tag-version ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
          git add .
          git commit -m "Release version ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}"
          git push
      - name: Publish to NPM
        run: yarn publish --non-interactive
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

The downside is that you need to disable branch protections to make the commit on the main branch

[psimk]

I guess we could indeed just fully automate publishing from the get go, but then we would have to figure out how to create releases (#56) first.