Unclear how to get the generated version into each application's build with nx affected

[mklueh]

Hello,

I'm trying to understand how to use this plugin. Let's say I just want to show somewhere in my application what the current version is, then I need to pass the version information into each application's build.

My current setup is something like this:

      - name: Semantic Release
        run: nx nx affected --target=semantic-release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Deploying changed apps
         run: nx affected --target=build-and-deploy
            

How would that be possible? Is the version info stored somewhere in context of the app, or would I have to combine semantic release and build + deploy into one single script myself?

[TheUnderScorer]

Hey @mklueh!

Usually, this can be achieved by creating package.json in your application directory. For example:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "1.0.0"
  "private" true
}

You will also need to set npm: true in your semantic-release configuration. Because the private is set to true, it won't be published to NPM, but during release the version in package.json will be bumped, and you will be able to access it in your app like this:

import { version } from './package.json';

console.log(version);

I hope that it helps!

[mklueh]

@TheUnderScorer thank you! I'll try that

[mklueh]

@TheUnderScorer I've finally managed to try it and failed to far. The only thing that is changed and pushed is the changelog, but not the versions.

My config is within the package.json and in all my package.jsons private is set to true and I've tried setting npm: true in the root package.json as well as the application one's with no effect. The version is set to 0.0.1 in the application only.

It seems the npm plugin is not running after the changelog plugin, despite having explicitly installed it

[8:09:59 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[8:09:59 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[8:09:59 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"
[8:09:59 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"

Edit: my mistake

I've set the option in nxrelease config instead of the executor options