grunt-github-releaser

Task for automated github releases

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-github-releaser --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-github-releaser');

The "github-release" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named github-release to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  "github-release": {
    options: {
      repository: 'dolbyzerr/grunt-github-releaser', // Path to repository
      auth: {   // Auth credentials
        user: 'dolbyzerr',
        password: ''
      }
    },
    files: {
      src: ['dist/release.zip'] // Files that you want to attach to Release
    }
 
  },
});

Options

options.repository

Type: String Default value: ``

Repository path in :owner/:repo format.

options.auth

Type: String

Basic authorization, see "Personal Access Tokens" in https://github.com/settings/applications

options.release

Type: Object

Here you can provide custom release settings, according http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#create-a-release These section is tottaly optional. If no tag_name specified than version field, from package.json will be used.

Usage Examples

This example will:

• Create tag, from package.json version field. For example: 0.1.16
• Create Release named 0.1.16
• Upload release.zip from dest folder, and attach it to release

grunt.initConfig({
  github_releaser: {
    options: {
      repository: 'dolbyzerr/grunt-github-releaser',
      auth: {
        user: 'dolbyzerr',
        password: '123'
      }
    },
    files: {
      'dest': ['release.zip'],
    },
  },
});

Custom Release Options

In this example, custom release options are used to specify custom name, description, prerelease state etc.

grunt.initConfig({
  github_releaser: {
    options: {
      repository: 'dolbyzerr/grunt-github-releaser',
      auth: {
        user: 'dolbyzerr',
        password: '123'
      },
      release: {
        tag_name: 'v3-rc',
        name: 'jelly-bean',
        body: 'Description of the release',
        draft: false, 
        prerelease: true
      }
    },
    files: {
      'dest': ['release.zip'],
    },
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

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