Rapid Release is a tool to help automate the required steps to create a new release of your app.

npx rapid-release VERSION

VERSION can be any of major, minor, patch, premajor, preminor, prepatch, prerelease, 1.2.3 (uses npm version)

It makes a few assumptions about the project, so be sure those things are true with your project.

The main goal is to marge the develop branch into master, push everything and add the required tags. The main assumption is that you follow gitflow and you have a develop (or any branch name that contains the string dev) that you want to merge into master and release.

It also assumes that you want master and develop branch to have the exact same commits after the release is done, which is a good practise.

Following are the actions that Rapid Release executes, in the order those are executed.

• Check if the current branch has the string dev in it's name
• npm test run tests or skip them using flag -s
• git pull make sure we have all changes
• npm version VERSION VERSION is the version you specified
• git push push the new commit that npm created
• git push --follow-tags push the tag that npm created
• git checkout master go to master branch
• git pull make sure we have latest code
• git merge DEV_BRANCH merge the branch we started in, to master
• git push push the new release code
• npm publish only if you used the -p flag
• git checkout DEV_BRANCH go back to the branch we started at

-s or --skip-tests to skip running the tests (npm test)
-p or --npm-publish to publish on npm (npm publish)