gulp-release-easy

A gulp plugin that helps you automate releasing and publishing to NPM easy than ever! All you need to do is issue gulp release. I've used it in my pet project as well as used it to publish itself!

Usage

npm install gulp-release-easy --save-dev

var gulp = require('gulp');
require('gulp-release-easy')(gulp);

You can also pass along a config object where you can define your chosen release branch (by default, it will be 'master');

// Set 'develop' as the release branch
require('gulp-release-easy')(gulp,{releaseBranch:'develop'});

See more about what you can pass in the config object below.

All you need to know is just simply issue:

gulp release

Instead of manually: pull changes from release branch -> bump version -> commit -> tag -> push to release branch -> publish to NPM

or a full version:

gulp release -b my-release-branch --minor --bower

Options

Instead of typing parameters every time you issue gulp release, you can set them by default by passing the config object and then simply gulp release:

 
// all the properties below are optional
require('gulp-release-easy')(gulp,{
    releaseBranch:'develop', // Set 'develop' as the release branch 'master' is default
    releaseType: 'minor', // or 'marjor' or 'patch' (which is default)
    excludeTask: 'publish', // this will do all the tasks but NOT publishing to NPM
    origin: 'origin', //origin branch, default is 'origin'. Command line equivelence is `-o origin-branch-name`
    pkg: 'package.json'
});

If you want instead want to type in the verbose version of your gulp release, you can pass along some parameters, this will override the config options you passed in gulpfile.js:

option	meaning
gulp-release -b branch-name	your release branch
gulp-release --minor (or -v minor)	release minor (the same thing with patch and major, default is patch)
gulp-release --bower (or --npm or --node)	choose the package file that you want to update (either npm or bower, default is npm)
gulp-release -x taskName	exclude the task during the releasing process, currently only 'publish' can be exceluded

run gulp -T for a list of available commands