semi-auto npm releases

README.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 - [Usage](#usage)
 - [Speed Optimizations](#speed-optimizations)
 - [Warnings](#warnings)
+- [npm releases](#npmreleases)
 - [Authors](#authors)
 - [License](#license)
 - [API reference](API.md)
@@ -120,6 +121,34 @@ An example BigchainDB Server-generated keypair (encoded in `base58`):
 Your package should be able to take in the decoded version of the **private** key and return you the
 same **public** key (once you encode that to `base58`).
 
+## npm releases
+
+For a new **patch release**, execute on the machine where you're logged into your npm account:
+
+```bash
+npm run release
+```
+
+Command is powered by [`release-it`](https://github.com/webpro/release-it) package, defined in the `package.json`.
+
+That's what the command does without any user interaction:
+
+- create release commit by updating version in `package.json`
+- create tag for that release commit
+- push commit & tag
+- create a new release on GitHub, with change log auto-generated from commit messages
+- publish to npm as a new release
+
+If you want to create a **minor** or **major release**, use these commands:
+
+```bash
+npm run release-minor
+```
+
+```bash
+npm run release-major
+```
+
 ## Authors
 
 Inspired by [`js-bigchaindb-quickstart`](https://github.com/sohkai/js-bigchaindb-quickstart) of @sohkhai [thanks]

package.json

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@
     "build:cjs": "cross-env BABEL_ENV=cjs babel ./src -d dist/node",
     "build:dist": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack -p",
     "clean": "rimraf dist/bundle dist/node",
-    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified AWWWW YEAHHH\" && exit 1"
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified AWWWW YEAHHH\" && exit 1",
+    "release": "./node_modules/release-it/bin/release.js --src.tagName='v%s' --github.release --npm.publish --non-interactive",
+    "release-minor": "./node_modules/release-it/bin/release.js minor --src.tagName='v%s' --github.release --npm.publish --non-interactive",
+    "release-major": "./node_modules/release-it/bin/release.js major --src.tagName='v%s' --github.release --npm.publish --non-interactive"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "babel-cli": "^6.22.2",
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@
     "eslint": "^3.14.1",
     "eslint-config-ascribe": "^3.0.1",
     "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.2.0",
+    "release-it": "^2.7.3",
     "rimraf": "^2.5.4",
     "webpack": "^2.2.1"
   },