Nx plugin for versioning using SemVer and CHANGELOG generation powered by Conventional Commits.
npm install -D @jscutlery/semver
nx g @jscutlery/semver:installThis package allows you to manage your Nx workspace using one of two modes: Synced or Independent.
Allow multiple projects to be versioned independently. This way you release only what you want and consumers don't get updates they don't need. This allows small, rapid and incremental adoption of your packages.
Allow multiple projects to be versioned in a synced/locked mode. Use this if you want to automatically tie all package versions together. This mode is useful when you are working with only one product. One issue with this approach is that a major change in any project will result in all projects having a new major version.
Release project independently by running:
nx run my-project:version [...options]
You can leverage the affected command to only version changed packages:
nx affected --target version [...options]
Release workspace by running:
nx run workspace:version [...options]
- Retrieve the current version by looking at the last
git tag. - Bump
package.jsonversion based on the commits. - Generates CHANGELOG based on the commits (uses conventional-changelog-angular under the hood).
- Creates a new commit including the
package.jsonfile and updated CHANGELOG. - Creates a new tag with the new version number.
- Pushes the version to the remote repository.
- Runs post-targets hook to publish the version on NPM, GitHub or GitLab.
| name | type | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|
--dryRun |
boolean |
false |
run with dry mode |
--noVerify |
boolean |
false |
skip git hooks |
--push |
boolean |
false |
push the release to the remote repository |
--syncVersions |
boolean |
false |
lock/sync versions between projects |
--skipRootChangelog |
boolean |
false |
skip generating root changelog |
--skipProjectChangelog |
boolean |
false |
skip generating project changelog |
--origin |
string |
'origin' |
push against git remote repository |
--baseBranch |
string |
'main' |
push against git base branch |
--changelogHeader |
string |
undefined |
custom Markdown header for changelogs |
--releaseAs |
string |
undefined |
specify the level of change (details) |
--preid |
string |
undefined |
specify the prerelease identifier (eg: alpha, beta) (details) |
--tagPrefix |
string |
undefined |
specify the tag prefix (details) |
--postTargets |
string[] |
[] |
specify the list of target to execute post-release (details) |
--trackDeps |
boolean |
false |
bump dependent packages (bump A if A depends on B) (details) |
--allowEmptyRelease |
boolean |
false |
force a patch increment even if library source didn't change |
--skipCommitTypes |
string[] |
[] |
treat commits with specified types as non invoking version bump (details) |
--skipCommit |
boolean |
false |
skips generating a new commit, leaves all changes in index, tag would be put on last commit (details) |
--skipStage |
boolean |
false |
skips add to git stage, useful when you want to run nx cmd in parallel (details) |
--commitMessageFormat |
string |
undefined |
format the auto-generated message commit (details) |
--preset |
string | object |
'angular' |
customize Conventional Changelog options (details) |
--commitParserOptions |
object |
undefined |
customize the commit parserConfig (details) |
You can customize the default configuration using the definition file:
{
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:version",
"options": {
"baseBranch": "master",
"preset": "atom",
"tagPrefix": "{projectName}@"
}
}This tool comes with a list of pre-configured presets:
- angular (default)
- conventionalcommits
Complete list of presets
- angular (default)
- conventionalcommits
- atom
- codemirror
- ember
- eslint
- express
- jquery
- jshint
The preset is highly configurable, following the conventional-changelog-config-spec. As an example, suppose you're using GitLab, rather than GitHub, you might modify the following variables:
{
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:version",
"options": {
"preset": {
"commitUrlFormat": "{{host}}/{{owner}}/{{repository}}/commit/{{hash}}",
"compareUrlFormat": "{{host}}/{{owner}}/{{repository}}/compare/{{previousTag}}...{{currentTag}}",
"issueUrlFormat": "{{host}}/{{owner}}/{{repository}}/issues/{{id}}",
"types": [
{ "type": "feat", "section": "β¨ Features" },
{ "type": "fix", "section": "π Bug Fixes" },
{ "type": "chore", "hidden": true }
]
}
}
}Note
When customizing a preset it will implicitly use the conventionalcommits preset and override the default settings with the given configuration.
It is possible to customize any preset by passing its name.
{
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:version",
"options": {
"preset": {
"name": "angular",
"types": [
{ "type": "feat", "section": "β¨ Features" },
{ "type": "fix", "section": "π Bug Fixes" }
]
}
}
}See the conventional-changelog-config-spec for available configuration options.
You may customize the config for the commit parser. This can be helpful when you are using an adapted version of conventional commit for instance.
{
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:version",
"options": {
"commitParserOptions": {
"headerPattern": "^([A-Z]{3,}-\\d{1,5}):? (chore|build|ci|docs|feat|fix|perf|refactor|test)(?:\\(([\\w-]+)\\))?\\S* (.+)$",
"headerCorrespondence": ["ticketReference", "type", "scope", "subject"]
}
}
}See the conventional-commits-parse specification for available configuration options.
This package is tag-based, which means it never reads the package.json to retrieve the current version. Instead, it looks for a tag matching the --tagPrefix (i.e demo-x.y.z). Then, if no tag is found it fallbacks to 0.0.0, and calculates the initial version based on all changes since the first commit. In the other case, if there are matching tags, it retrieves the last one and calculates the new version from it.
Important
To detect a new version this package looks into the commit history and checks if any source files changed since the last version. Note that merge commits are ignored by the tool when calculating next version to bump.
Major zero version 0.x.y is for initial development. Anything may change at any time so the consumer won't get any new minor version using the caret or tilde compatibility range, for instance version 0.3.1 won't be resolved if the consumer wants ^0.2.0.
The --releaseAs option allows you to release a project with a version that is incremented by a specified level.
Level can be one of major, minor, patch, premajor, preminor, prepatch, or prerelease, for instance:
nx run workspace:version --releaseAs=major
nx run workspace:version --releaseAs=minor
nx run workspace:version --releaseAs=patch
nx run workspace:version --releaseAs=prerelease --preid=alpha
nx run workspace:version --releaseAs=prerelease --preid=beta
When using the --releaseAs=prerelease option, the initial prerelease version takes into account the commit history to determine the recommended bump type. As an illustration, let's assume the current version is 1.0.0, and the commit history includes the following:
- Commit 1:
feat(my-project): abc - Commit 2:
fix(my-project): def
Running the following command:
nx version my-project --releaseAs=prerelease --preid=alphaWould yield the version 1.1.0-alpha.0. Subsequent executions of the command would result in incremented prerelease versions, such as 1.1.0-alpha.1.
The --tagPrefix option allows you to customize the tag prefix.
In sync mode only one tag is created for the whole workspace, the tag prefix is set to v by default, which is resolved for instance to v0.0.1.
In independent mode, the tag prefix uses the contextual project name, the default value is {projectName}- which is resolved for instance to my-project-0.0.1. Note that each project in the workspace is versioned with its tag.
The --commitMessageFormat option allows you to customize the commit message. By default, the commit message is formatted as the following:
chore({projectName}): release version {version}
Contextual variables resolved by this option:
versionthe current release version (for instance1.0.0)projectNamethe project name to be versioned (for instancemy-project)
Note that it's the right place to add common keywords to skip CI workflows, for example: [skip ci] for GitHub, eg:
release: bump {projectName} to {version} [skip ci]
To avoid releasing a new version if something non-influencing on release was changed (for example, documentation), you can provide skipCommitTypes option.
In this case, any commit with a specified type would be ignored when calculating if there is a need to bump version.
For example, if you had only one commit from the last version:
docs(project): update documentation about new feature
would not cause a new release (because --skipCommitTypes=docs,ci was specified).
And two commits:
docs(project): update documentation about new feature
fix(project): get rig of annoying bug
would produce a patch bump.
Note
Please keep in mind that changelog would be generated by conventional-changelog which ignores some types by design (i.e. docs, test and others).
In some cases, your release process relies only on tags and you don't want a new commit with version bumps and changelog updates to be made.
To achieve this, you can provide the --skipCommit flag and changes made by the library would stay in the index without committing.
The tag for the new version would be put on the last existing commit.
In case you want to run nx cmd in parallel, you can provide the --skipStage flag and it will not add to git stage - since that requires a git-lock, this has to be used together with --skipCommit and --skipTag and not with --push, all for the same reason they will require a git-lock.
The --postTargets option allows you to run targets post-release. This is particularly handful for publishing packages on a registry or scheduling any other task.
Here is a configuration example using @jscutlery/semver:github to create a GitHub Release and ngx-deploy-npm:deploy to publish on NPM:
{
"targets": {
"build": {
/* ... */
},
"version": {
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:version",
"options": {
"push": true,
"postTargets": ["build", "npm", "github"],
},
},
"github": {
"executor": "@jscutlery/semver:github",
"options": {
"tag": "{tag}",
"notes": "{notes}",
},
},
"npm": {
"executor": "ngx-deploy-npm:deploy",
"options": {
"access": "public",
"distFolderPath": "dist/packages/my-package",
},
},
},
}Contextual variables resolved by this option:
projectNameversioned project nameversionsemver versiontagformatted git tagnotesrelease notespreviousTagprevious version tagdryRundry run mode
Note
The specified targets are going to be executed as is, without triggering any dependencies. It will not trigger the target's dependsOn and Nx caching is not considered
@jscutlery/semver:githubGiHub Release Support@jscutlery/semver:gitlabGitLab Release Support
The --trackDeps option indicates that direct dependencies in the project's dependency graph should be taken into account when incrementing the
version. If no version-incrementing changes are present in the project but are present in one or more dependencies, then the project will receive a patch
version increment.
If you wish to track changes at any depth of your dependency graph, then you should do the following:
- Enable versioning for each project in the dependency graph
- Set the
trackDepsoption totrueon each of the projects - Make sure that
versionis run on projects in the right order by configuringversion's target dependencies innx.json:
{
"targetDefaults": {
"version": {
"dependsOn": ["^version"]
}
}
}This setup will cause a cascade of version increments starting at the deepest changed dependency,
then continuing up the graph until the indicated project is reached.
Additionally, if used in conjunction with nx run-many --all, or nx affected,
then it will avoid attempting to version dependencies multiple times.
Warning
Be aware that this feature has known limitations.
Here is an example running semver in a GitHub workflow:
name: release
on:
- workflow_dispatch
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Use Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v3
with:
node-version: '16'
- name: Setup Git
run: |
git config user.name "GitHub Bot"
git config user.email "gituser@example.com"
- run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Version
shell: bash
run: yarn nx affected --base=last-release --target=version
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Tag last-release
shell: bash
run: |
git tag -f last-release
git push origin last-release --forceNote that secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN is automatically provided by the GitHub Actions, you don't need to set up anything.
Here is an example running semver in the GitLab CI:
stages:
- release
release:
rules:
- if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "master"
when: manual
stage: release
image: node:16.13.2
before_script:
- git config --global user.name "GitLab Bot"
- git config --global user.email "gituser@example.com"
- git remote set-url origin http://gitlab-ci-token:${DEPLOY_KEY}@gitlab.com/org/project.git
script:
- yarn install --frozen-lockfile
- yarn nx affected --target=version --base=last-release
- git tag -f last-release
- git push origin last-release --force -o ci.skipNote that you might need to configure a deploy key in order to push to your remote repository.
If you want to migrate to Nx Release, run the following command:
nx g @jscutlery/semver:migrate-nx-releaseBy executing this generator, the existing @jscutlery/semver configuration will be removed, and Nx Release will be appropriately configured for your projects.
Note
The migration process does not currently support the sync mode. Complex or highly customized configurations may require additional manual adjustments after running the migration generator. After running this generator, you will need to adjust any custom scripts or CI workflows related to versioning and releases to align with the new Nx release workflow.
For more details on using Nx Release, refer to the official Nx documentation.
| Version | Required Package |
|---|---|
| v5.5.0 | @nx/devkit ^20.0.0 |
| v5.3.0 | @nx/devkit ^19.0.0 |
| v5.0.0 | @nx/devkit ^18.0.0 |
| v4.0.0 | @nx/devkit ^17.0.0 |
| v3.0.0 | @nx/devkit ^16.0.0 |
| v2.28.0 | @nrwl/devkit ^15.0.0 |
| v2.23.0 | @nrwl/devkit ^14.0.0 |
| v2.12.0 | @nrwl/workspace ^13.0.0 |
| v2.4.0 | @nrwl/workspace ^12.0.0 |
| v1.0.0 | @nrwl/workspace ^11.0.0 |
For new features or breaking changes see the changelog.
This project follows the all-contributors specification.
This project is MIT licensed.