Updating build package.json and root package.json version

[kikajanovcik]

I have an nx library that at the build step, adds dependencies to the package.json and adds this package.json to dist folder. However at npm publish only the root package.json is updated with the next version and added to release. Because of this, I changed my config to take the package.json from the dist folder, which gets updated with the next release version and publishes to npm. Now it all works fine, but my root package.json doesn't have this change. I am currently handling it by adding a custom script to semantic release plugins. What am I doing wrong? :)

The build target:

"build": {
  "executor": "@nx/esbuild:esbuild",
  "options": {
    "main": "{projectRoot}/src/index.ts",
    "tsConfig": "{projectRoot}/tsconfig.json",
    "outputPath": "{projectRoot}/dist",
    "packageJson": "{projectRoot}/package.json",
    "generatePackageJson": true,
    ...
  }
},

The release target:

"release": {
    "executor": "nx:run-commands",
    "dependsOn": ["build"],
    "options": {
      "commands": ["npx semantic-release-plus"],
      "cwd": "{projectRoot}"
    }
  }

semantic release config:

module.exports = {
extends: 'my-semantic-release-config',
tagFormat: 'my-lib/v${version}',
commitPaths: [
  '*', // anything in this directory
],
pkgRoot: 'dist',
plugins: [
  ...baseConfig.plugins,
  [
    "@semantic-release/exec",
    {
      "prepareCmd": "my-update-root-package-json-script"
    }
  ]
],
};