changelog-view

Changelog view

Tool view changelog in console.

It list only the changes between the specified version and the latest version. You can see it as a git diff between version for changelogs.

Installation

Yarn

yarn install --dev changelog-view

npm

npm install (-g) changelog-view

or you can use npx to automatically run the program npx does not seems to work with it, maybe an issue with the @

Usage

yarn / npm:

changelog-view <package@currentVersion> [<package@currentVersion> ...]

Example

changelog-view howardabrams/node-mocks-http@1.5.4 mapado/rest-client-js-sdk@0.14.1

In a JavaScript / PHP project ?

changelog-view tries to detect automatically the current version of your currently installed dependencies.

It works fine with npm / yarn for JavaScript projects, and with composer for PHP projects.

, so you can just do:

Imagine you have this package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "rest-client-sdk": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

The following command:

changelog-view rest-client-sdk

Will ouput:

... other version
## [1.0.1] - 2017-07-03 - [YANKED]

### Changed

    * Make urijs implementation work again but might be breaking
    * Url constructor passed with noTransform = true for better perf and avoid potential bugs

Same for PHP if you do

changelog-view behat/transliterator

Will output:

# CHANGELOG for "Behat/Transliterator"


# 1.2.0 / 2017-04-04

    * Stop Transliterator::postProcessText() breaking words containing apostrophes

Features

The package checks on github if a file named CHANGELOG.md or HISTORY.md is present.

If not, it tries to list the github releases.

It tries to parse the markdown files and filter only version greater than the specified version.

Automatic langage / dependency management package detection

• [JavaScript] Automatically guess package informations from JavaScript projects
• [PHP] Automatically guess package informations from composer.lock
• [Python] Automatically guess package informations from Pipfile.lock (help wanted, does not seems easy to gets the github url as it relies on pypi). Can eventually rely on pip freeze command but seems to be "the old way"
• [Go] Automatically guess package informations from Gopkg.lock (help wanted, but maybe easy because dependencies seems to be only github links in Go)
• [Ruby] Automatically guess package informations from Gemfile.lock (help wanted, I did not really understand the Gemfile.lock principle)
• Other languages: feel free to contribute, I just listed languages that came to my mind :)

To be done

• make npx work