README.md

action: Release Candidate

This repo contains an action to create a release tag in frontend repositories

---

Dynamic props that action supports:

inputs:
  repo-link:  # id of input
    description: 'what is the link for the repo: ie. https://api.github.com/repos/tajawal/almosafer-business/'
    required: true
 
  node-version:  # id of input
    description: 'which node version to use?'
    required: false
    default: '16.14'

---

Usage:

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]
    branches: [develop]

jobs:
  # job 1
  check:
    runs-on: CT-selfhosted
    steps:
      - name: Exit gracefully if not a release
        id: releaseExitStep
        run: |
          echo "::set-output name=should_release::true"
          if [[ ${{ contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'norelease') }} = "true" ]]; then
            echo "::set-output name=should_release::false"
          fi
    outputs:
      status: ${{steps.releaseExitStep.outputs.should_release}}

  # job 2
  release:
    name: Release Canditate
    runs-on: CT-selfhosted
    needs: [check]
    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true && needs.check.outputs.status == 'true'
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - id: foo
        uses: tajawal/[email protected]
        with:
          repo-link: 'https://api.github.com/repos/tajawal/almosafer-business/'
          node-version: '12.x'

---

To update the tag, run:

git tag -a -m "Description of this release" 1.0.2
git push --follow-tags

---

Prerequisites to run the action:

• {{SEERA_FRONTEND_TOKEN}} should be set up in the repo/org
• have following scripts in your package.json:

   "release:major": "release-it major",
    "release:patch": "release-it patch",
    "release:minor": "release-it minor",
    "release:rc": "release-it $RELEASE_TYPE --preRelease=RC"

• have release-it.json file in the root of your app:

 {
 "preReleaseId": null,
 "pkgFiles": ["package.json"],
 "use": "pkg.version",
 "scripts": {
   "beforeStart": null,
   "beforeBump": null,
   "afterBump": null,
   "beforeStage": null,
   "changelog": "git log --pretty=format:\"* %s (%h)\" [REV_RANGE]",
   "afterRelease": null
 },
 "git": {
   "requireCleanWorkingDir": true,
   "requireUpstream": false,
   "addUntrackedFiles": false,
   "commit": true,
   "commitMessage": "Release ${version}",
   "commitArgs": "",
   "tag": true,
   "tagName": "v${version}",
   "tagAnnotation": "Release ${version}",
   "tagArgs": "",
   "push": true,
   "pushArgs": "",
   "pushRepo": "origin"
 },
 "npm": {
   "publish": false
 }
}