create-nightly-release

GitHub action to create a new pre-release and delete old pre-releases created by this action.

Usage

- name: Create nightly release
  id: create_release
  uses: viperproject/create-nightly-release@v1
  env:
    # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  with:
    tag_name: ${{ env.TAG_NAME }}
    release_name: Nightly Release ${{ env.TAG_NAME }}
    body: Body for the release
    keep_num: 0
    keep_tags: false

Inputs

• tag_name: The name of the tag. (required)
• release_name: The name of the release. For example, 'Release v1.0.1'. (required)
• body: Text describing the release. (optional)
• body_path: Path to a file whose content should be used as release body. (optional)
• keep_num: Number of pre-releases that should be kept in addition to the newly created one. E.g. '0' deletes all previous pre-releases created by this action except the one that was just created. (optional, default: 0)
• keep_tags: Specifies whether tags should be deleted if the corresponding release is deleted. (optional, default: false)

Outputs

• id: The ID of the created release.
• html_url: The URL users can navigate to in order to view the release.
• upload_url: The URL for uploading assets to the release

Create a new Release

1. Checkout this repository and pull remote changes git pull
2. Checkout or create a release branch (replace v1 with the major version number):

• git checkout releases/v1; git pull origin main or
• git checkout -b releases/v1

3. Run npm version <newversion> to set the version number
4. Run rm -rf dist; rm -rf node_modules; npm ci
5. Run npm run package
6. Force add the dist folder: git add -f dist
7. Commit: git commit -m "<commit message>
8. Push release branch: git push
9. Create a GitHub release with a tag, e.g. v1.0.0
10. Move the major tag (e.g. v1) to the latest release:

git tag -fa v1 -m "Update v1 tag"
git push origin v1 --force

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