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package-json-validator

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package-json-validator

A Github Action for validating package.json conventions

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: package-json-validator

uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1

Learn more about this action in ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator

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package-json-validator

A Github Action for validating package.json conventions.

Rules

Use the rules input to specify one or more rules you would like to check for your package.json.

Ranges

The "ranges" rule validates that all package.json dependencies are exact versions, or use only the allowed version ranges specified. Click here for details about version ranges.

The following usage would allow "my-package": "1.2.3" but prevent "my-package": "^1.2.3".

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: ranges

You can also specify allowed-ranges. The following would allow "my-package": "^1.2.3" but prevent "my-package": "~1.2.3".

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: ranges
      allowed-ranges: ^

Tags

The "tags" rule validates that all package.json dependencies contain no tagged versions, or use only the allowed tags specified. Click here for details about tags.

The following usage would allow "my-package": "1.2.3" but prevent "my-package": "1.2.3-alpha.456.0".

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: tags

The following usage would allow "my-package": "1.2.3-canary.456.0" but prevent "my-package": "1.2.3-alpha.456.0".

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: tags
      allowed-tags: canary

Resolutions

The "resolutions" rule validates that your package.json does not contain the resolutions option.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
    rules: resolutions

Specify ignore-resolutions to skip resolution validation entirely for certain packages. Optionally provide a newline separated list of package names here

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: resolutions
      ignore-resolutions: resolution-package-to-ignore

Specify ignore-resolutions-until to skip resolution validation entirely for certain amount of time. You can use any format supported by Date constructor MDN

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: resolutions
      ignore-resolutions-until: 2000-01-01

Keys

The "keys" rule validates that your package.json does not contain duplicate dependency keys.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
    rules: keys

Example invalid package.json this will prevent:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "some-dependency": "1.0.0",
    "some-dependency": "2.0.0"
  }
}

Other Inputs

Specify package-json-location to specify another location for the package.json to validate. Defaults to ./package.json.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: ranges
      package-json-location: ./project/package.json

Specify dependency-types to denote which type of package.json dependencies you wish to validate. Valid options include dependencies, devDependencies, peerDependencies, and optionalDependencies. Defaults to dependencies.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: ranges
      dependency-types: devDependencies

Specify ignore-packages to skip validation entirely for certain packages. Optionally provide a newline separated list of package names here.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: ranges
      ignore-packages: package-to-ignore

Other Usages

You may also enforce multiple rules (and pass additional inputs) like this:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - uses: ExpediaGroup/package-json-validator@v1
    with:
      rules: |
        ranges
        tags
      allowed-ranges: |
        ^
        *
      allowed-tags: |
        alpha
        canary
      dependency-types: |
        dependencies
        devDependencies
      ignore-packages: |
        package-to-ignore
        another-package-to-ignore

Contact

This project is part of Expedia Group Open Source but also maintained by Dan Adajian

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the Apache 2 License.

Contributions

  • Follow semantic-release commit formatting. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.