Easy NPM Publish

Use Conventional Commits to automatically update the package version, update the git tags and publish the package.

Table of Contents

• Easy NPM Publish
  • Table of Contents
  • Features
  • Inputs
  • Outputs
  • Example Usage

Features

• Use the version information in the registry so there is no need to update the repo with the current version.
• Automatically determine the next version based on the commit messages since the last version, using Conventional Commits to determine whether to bump the major, minor or patch component of the semver package version.
• Publish to an npm compatible registry (NPM by default, compatible with GitHub Packages)
• Automatically add tags to the branch
  • The latest tag gets set/moved to the current commit
  • A tag with the latest version gets added to the current commit (i.e. v1.2.3)
  • A tag with the major and minor version gets set/moved (i.e. v1.2)
  • A tag with the major version gets set/moved (i.e. v1)

Inputs

Input Name	Type	Details
registry-token	string	REQUIRED - An auth token with access to publish to the registry.
github-token	string	REQUIRED / Optional - A github token with access to write tags and releases to the repository. Required if git tagging is enabled, otherwise optional.
changelog-titles	string	A JSON encoded object, mapping the conventional commit type to the section title to use in the changelog for that type. These values will be merged into and override the default titles. (ex. '{ "feat": "New Features" }') Default: '{}'
disable-git-tagging	boolean	Disable setting and/or updating the git tags. Default: false
dry-run	boolean	Run the action without actually publishing the package or pushing git tags. Default: false
enable-github-release	boolean	Create a GitHub Release. Default: false
get-release-title-from-pr	boolean	Attempt to get the PR title from a PR associated to the git sha. If it is found, use the PR title as the release title. If not found, fall back to the release tag name. If the release-title has a truthy value, it will override this option. Note: The GITHUB_TOKEN requires pull-requests: read permissions. Default: false
git-tag-suffix	string	A value append to the git tags. Default: ''
major-types	string	A comma-separated list of conventional commit types that trigger a major version change. Default: ''
minor-types	string	A comma-separated list of conventional commit types that trigger a minor version change. Default: 'feat'
npmrc-content	string	Manually set the contents of the .npmrc file written to the npmrc-path location. Default: ''
npmrc-path	string	A path to the .npmrc file. Default: '$HOME/.npmrc'
package-directory	string	The path to the directory containing the package to be published. It must be a relative path, relative to the root of the repository. Default: '.'
private	boolean	Whether to publish the package as a private package. Default: false
registry-url	string	The URL of the package registry to publish to. Use 'npm.pkg.github.com' for GitHub Packages. Default: 'registry.npmjs.org'
release-title	string	The title to use for the GitHub release. If not set, or an empty string, the release tag name will be used.
scripts-package-directory	string	The path to a directory containing a package.json file which contains the project's scripts. Set this to use a custom publish script in the package.json file. It must be a relative path, relative to the root of the repository. Default: The value of the input package-directory
version-override	string	The version to use for publishing the package instead of determining the version using conventional commits. Default: ''

Outputs

Output Name	Details
current-version	The version of the package before it is updated (ex. 1.2.2).
increment-type	The type of version increment (if applicable) in ['major', 'minor', 'patch'].
next-version	The new version of the package (ex. 1.2.3).
next-version-major	The major portion of the new version of the package (ex. 1).
next-version-minor	The minor portion of the new version of the package (ex. 2).
next-version-patch	The patch portion of the new version of the package (ex. 3).

Example Usage

jobs:
  publish:
    name: Publish the NPM Package
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
      packages: write
      # Add permission to read the PRs when setting the release title using the PR title
      pull-requests: read

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Publish the Package to NPM
        id: publish_npm
        uses: glitch452/easy-npm-publish@v1
        with:
          registry-token: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          package-directory: dist

      - name: Publish the Package to GitHub
        id: publish_github
        uses: glitch452/easy-npm-publish@v1
        with:
          registry-url: npm.pkg.github.com
          registry-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          package-directory: dist
          version-override: ${{ steps.publish_npm.outputs.next-version }}
          disable-git-tagging: true

      - name: Print Outputs
        run: |
          echo "${{ toJSON(steps.publish_npm.outputs) }}"
          echo "${{ toJSON(steps.publish_github.outputs) }}"