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beachball
Advanced tools
the sunniest version bumping tool
git and a remote named "origin"
beachball [command] [options]
a tool to help create change files in the change/ folder
checks whether a change file is needed for this branch
based on change files, create changelogs and then unlinks the change files
bumps versions as well as generating changelogs
bumps, publishes to npm registry (optionally does dist-tags), and pushes changelogs back into master
registry, defaults to https://registry.npmjs.org
dist-tag for npm publishes
target branch from origin (default: master)
custom message for the checkin (default: applying package updates)
help message
$ beachball
$ beachball check
$ beachball publish -r http://localhost:4873 -t beta
1.3.1
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:34:32 GMT
FAQs
The Sunniest Semantic Version Bumper
The npm package beachball receives a total of 22,354 weekly downloads. As such, beachball popularity was classified as popular.
We found that beachball demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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