Readers/Web/Team/Releasing libraries

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Prepare the versioning and make a changelog

Create a new pull request which modifies the package.json version file number (see https://semver.org/) and run:

npm version patch --git-tag-version=false

… for trivial changes, or for bigger releases:

npm version minor --git-tag-version=false

… or if it contains breaking changes then:

npm version major --git-tag-version=false

Commit the modifications to package.json and package-lock.json

Generate change log if CHANGELOG.md exists

A changelog (example) can be maintained by modifying CHANGELOG.md with the result of

git log `git describe --tags --abbrev=0` ..HEAD --oneline

Running tests

Always check tests are passing before releasing. If using Github pull requests with CI this should have been done automatically.

Create pull request

Create a pull request get someone to approve it, and merge.

Releasing the code

Once the code is merged

git fetch
git checkout origin/master
npm publish

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