JasonEtco / validate-semver-release

🔖🤔 GitHub Action that validates GitHub Releases against semantic versioning

Validate Semver Release

A GitHub Action that validates GitHub Releases against semantic versioning rules

What it checks for

• That the Git tag and the version in your package.json match
• That the Git tag and the package.json version are both valid SemVer
• That if the release is a prerelease, so is your version (either beta or next)

Usage

# Triggered by new releases on GitHub
on: release

jobs:
  # Run some checks against the new release
  validate:
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: JasonEtco/validate-semver-release@master
  # Publish the library to NPM if all is good!
  publish:
    needs: [validate]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/npm@master
        args: publish

If your release is a valid prerelease, it'll store the prerelease tag in a release-workflow-tag file in the workspace and will ouput it as the release-workflow-tag output:

on: release

jobs:
  validate_and_publish:
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1

      # Run the action with an `id` to get the outputs
      - uses: JasonEtco/validate-semver-release@master
        id: validate

      # Call `npm publish` with the specific tag
      - uses: actions/npm@master
        args: publish --tag ${{ steps.validate.outputs.release-workflow-tag }}

One example usage is to use the contents of that file in later actions to pass a --tag flag to npm publish.