prerelease-checks

Run essential pre-release checks before releasing an npm package.

💞 Works well with standard-version!

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🙋‍♂️ Why?

Because there are many points of failure when making a release.

This CLI runs a thorough check to guarantee a successful package release:

npm

• ✅ Assert npm version
• ✅ Validate package.json
  • ✅ Check valid npm name
  • ✅ Check valid semver version
  • ✅ Verify public package
• ✅ Verify npm registry is reachable (in case custom)
• ✅ Verify npm publish registry is reachable
• ✅ Verify user is authenticated to publish registry and has permissions

Git

• ✅ Assert Git version
• ✅ Verify working directory is clean
• ✅ Verify current branch is release branch
• ✅ Verify remote head exists
• ✅ Verify current branch is identical to upstream

🚀 Install

npm i -D prerelease-checks

npx

You can also install-and-run as you need it via npx:

npx prerelease-checks

🚦 Quick Setup

As a prepublish hook

Add prerelease-checks as a prepublishOnly hook in your package.json:

 {
   "scripts": {
+    "prepublishOnly": "prerelease-checks"
   }
 }

With standard-version

If you're using standard-version, add it to their prerelease hook.

 {
   "scripts": {
+    "prerelease": "prerelease-checks",
     "release": "standard-version"
   }
 }

Other

You can prepend your release script with prerelease-checks.

 {
   "scripts": {
+    "release": "prerelease-checks && my-custom-release-command",
   }
 }

🙏 Credits

Many inspirations taken from the prerequisite checks from np.