glemmal / npm-auto-version

Automatically generate new NPM versions based on Git tags when publishing

NPM Auto Version

This script is used to automatically generate new NPM versions based on Git tags when publishing.

Usage

Recommended contents of your package.json:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "scripts": {
        "prepublish": "npm-auto-version",
        "postpublish": "git push origin --tags"
    }
}

This will (under the hood) do the following when you run npm publish:

• Get the MAJOR.MINOR version from your package.json version field (call them M and N respectively)
• Get the list of git tags that match M.N.*
• Use semver to generate the next appropriate patch value M.N.P
• Update the package.json version field with M.N.P
• Generate a new git tag in the NPM syntax: vM.N.P
• Publish the package to NPM (via npm publish)
• Push the tags to your git origin

Requirements

This script requires:

• Node 0.12+
• Git client and grep installed in $PATH
• Shell that supports pipe |

License

Code licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license. See LICENSE file for terms.