releasy-it

📦 Releasy CLI

Releasy is a lightweight, interactive CLI tool for versioning, tagging, changelog generation, and GitHub release automation in TypeScript/Node.js projects.

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✨ Features

• 🔖 Semantic versioning with optional build metadata
• 🧠 Git safety checks: uncommitted or unpushed changes
• 📝 Markdown changelog input via terminal
• 🏷️ Git tagging and pushing
• 🚀 GitHub release creation via gh CLI
• 🧩 .releasyrc.json for default config
• 🧪 --dry-run support
• ✅ --yes for auto-confirm
• 🛠️ --config, --changelog overrides
• 📖 --help built-in documentation

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📦 Installation

npm install -g ./releasy-js  # or npm link after building

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🚀 Usage

releasy [options]

Options

Flag	Description
--help	Show CLI help message
--dry-run	Simulate the release process (no writes)
--yes	Skip all confirmation prompts
--config <file>	Use custom config instead of .releasyrc.json
--changelog <file>	Save changelog to a specific file

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Example

releasy --changelog tool/changelog_v2.1.0.md --yes

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🔧 .releasyrc.json (optional)

{
  "repo": "kennedyowusu/releasy-js",
  "defaultTitle": "My Release",
  "skipConfirm": true,
  "useBuildNumber": true,
  "autoPush": true,
  "changelogFilePath": "tool/changelog_latest.md"
}

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🛠 Development

Build and link locally

npm install
npm run build
npm link

Run manually

node dist/bin/index.js

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🧾 License

MIT — feel free to use, improve, and share.

Built with ❤️ by Kennedy Owusu