amacneil / chromatic-cli

Chromatic CLI: `npx chromatic`

Chromatic CLI

Publishes your Storybook to Chromatic and kicks off tests if they're enabled.

Documentation

👉 See the Chromatic CLI docs.

Contributing

Contributions of any kind are welcome! We're available to chat via the Intercom widget on the documentation site.

Compatibility & versioning

Compatibility is guaranteed between this package and Chromatic like so:

• Production Chromatic ensures it’s compatible with what’s on npm
• What's on the master branch is equal to what's published on npm
• This package ensures it’s compatible with production Chromatic

To facilitate upgrading in the future, removing and adding features, this is the process:

• Any new features will have to be on Chromatic production before they could be used in this package
• We can add feature flags to be able to test new functionality
• Chromatic production can not remove any features this package depends on until after the usage has been removed from this package in addition to a grace period to allow users to upgrade

Publishing a new version to npm

Before publishing, make sure you've done the following:

• yarn build
• Updated CHANGELOG.md
• Committed and pushed everything
• Decide on the proper semver bump (major/minor/patch)

Doing a dev or rc release

We have two types of pre-releases: dev and rc. dev releases are intended for development purposes and should not be used in production, as they may only work against a staging or dev environment. rc releases should be valid, working releases that can potentially be used by early adopters of new features, for example to handle a support request.

For the first dev (or rc) release, bump the version like so (depending on the semver bump):

npm version <premajor|preminor|prepatch> --preid dev

For consecutive dev releases on the same version:

npm version prerelease --preid=dev

Then push and publish:

git push --follow-tags
npm publish --tag dev

Make sure to replace dev with rc if appropriate.

Doing a final release

npm version <major|minor|patch>
git push --follow-tags
npm publish
yarn publish-action

And finally, remove the dev and/or rc tag, if any:

npm dist-tag rm chromatic dev