semantic-release

npm i semantic-release

semantic-release provides "prepublish" and "postpublish" hooks so you automatically release the correct version.

Run semantic-release pre right before npm publish and semantic-release post right after.

For maximum comfort you can automate this inside your package.json:

"scripts": {
  "prepublish": "semantic-release pre",
  "postpublish": "semantic-release post"
}

Note: Even though semantic-release works around a limitation in npm's "prepublish" hook using it prints an error that you can safely ignore. See npm/npm#7118.

MIT License 2015 Stephan Bönnemann