npm-publish-action

This is a GitHub Action for publishing npm packages.

If the action is triggered by a push to main, it will publish an npm package with a dynamically generated version, e.g. 0.0.1-snapshot.1709644075. The suffix is the epoch time (in seconds) of the Git commit.

If the action is triggered by a new tag, it will publish an npm package with using the tag name as the version number, e.g. tag v1.2.3 → version 1.2.3.

It is not necessary for developers to manually set the version property in package.json.

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GitHub Workflow

Run this GitHub Action when a push is made to your main branch, or a new tag is created:

---
name: Push

'on':
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'
    tags:
      - 'v*'

jobs:
  build:
    steps:
    
    - name: Publish
      uses: sknups/npm-publish-action@v1        

package.json

{
  "name": "@sknups-internal/project-name",
  "version": "0.0.1-snapshot",
  "private": false
}

Ensure that your project name is prefixed with the appropriate scope, e.g. @sknups-internal.

Ensure that the version property is set to 0.0.1-snapshot, there is no need to ever manually alter this value.

Ensure that the private property is set to false, or is absent.