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Prepare the versioning and make a changelog edit
Create a new pull request which modifies the package.json version file number (see https://semver.org/) and run:
npm version patch --git-tag-version=false
… for trivial changes, or for bigger releases:
npm version minor --git-tag-version=false
… or if it contains breaking changes then:
npm version major --git-tag-version=false
Commit the modifications to package.json and package-lock.json
Generate change log if CHANGELOG.md exists edit
A changelog (example) can be maintained by modifying CHANGELOG.md with the result of
git log `git describe --tags --abbrev=0` ..HEAD --oneline
Running tests edit
Always check tests are passing before releasing. If using Github pull requests with CI this should have been done automatically.
Create pull request edit
Create a pull request get someone to approve it, and merge.
Releasing the code edit
Once the code is merged
git fetch
git checkout origin/master
npm publish
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