standard-version
Advanced tools
The standard-version npm package is a utility for versioning and changelog generation based on conventional commits. It automates the process of updating the version number in your package.json file, generating a changelog, and creating a new Git tag.
Version Bumping
This command will bump the version in your package.json file based on the conventional commits in your repository. It will also create a new Git tag for the release.
npx standard-versionChangelog Generation
This command will generate a changelog based on the conventional commits and bump the version as a minor release. The changelog will be updated with the new changes.
npx standard-version --release-as minorPre-release Versioning
This command will bump the version to a pre-release version (e.g., 1.0.0-beta.0) and update the changelog accordingly.
npx standard-version --prerelease betaCustom Release Types
This command allows you to specify a custom version number for the release, overriding the automatic version bump based on conventional commits.
npx standard-version --release-as 1.1.0semantic-release automates the whole package release workflow including: determining the next version number, generating the release notes, and publishing the package. It is more comprehensive than standard-version and integrates with CI/CD pipelines for fully automated releases.
release-it is a versatile release tool for versioning, changelog generation, and publishing. It is highly configurable and can be extended with plugins. Compared to standard-version, release-it offers more flexibility and customization options.
lerna is a tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages. It can also handle versioning and changelog generation for monorepos. While it offers similar functionalities to standard-version, lerna is specifically designed for managing multi-package repositories.
stop using
npm version, usestandard-versionit rocks!
Automatic versioning and CHANGELOG management, using GitHub's new squash button and
the recommended workflow for conventional-changelog.
how it works:
master branch, select the Squash and Merge option.git checkout master; git pull origin masterstandard-versiongit push --follow-tags origin master; npm publishstandard-version does the following:
npm run scriptInstall and add to devDependencies:
npm i --save-dev standard-version
Add an npm run script to your package.json:
{
"scripts": {
"release": "standard-version"
}
}
Now you can use npm run release in place of npm version.
This has the benefit of making your repo/package more portable, so that other developers can cut releases without having to globally install standard-version on their machine.
Install globally (add to your PATH):
npm i -g standard-version
Now you can use standard-version in place of npm version.
This has the benefit of allowing you to use standard-version on any repo/package without adding a dev dependency to each one.
To generate your changelog for your first release, simply do:
# npm run script
npm run release -- --first-release
# or global bin
standard-version --first-release
This will tag a release without bumping the version in package.json.
When ready, push the git tag and npm publish your first release. \o/
If you typically use npm version to cut a new release, do this instead:
# npm run script
npm run release
# or global bin
standard-version
As long as your git commit messages are conventional and accurate, you no longer need to specify the semver type - and you get CHANGELOG generation for free! \o/
After you cut a release, you can push the new git tag and npm publish (or npm publish --tag next) when you're ready.
# npm run script
npm run release -- --help
# or global bin
standard-version --help
patches:
git commit -a -m "fix(parsing): fixed a bug in our parser"
features:
git commit -a -m "feat(parser): we now have a parser \o/"
breaking changes:
git commit -a -m "feat(new-parser): introduces a new parsing library
BREAKING CHANGE: new library does not support foo-construct"
other changes:
You decide, e.g., docs, chore, etc.
git commit -a -m "docs: fixed up the docs a bit"
but wait, there's more!
Github usernames (@bcoe) and issue references (#133) will be swapped out for the
appropriate URLs in your CHANGELOG.
Tell your users that you adhere to the standard-version commit guidelines:
[](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version)
standard-version different from semantic-release?semantic-release is a fully automated library/system for versioning, changelog generation, git tagging, and publishing to the npm registry.
standard-version is different because it handles the versioning, changelog generation, and git tagging for you without automatic pushing (to GitHub) or publishing (to an npm registry). Use of standard-version only affects your local git repo - it doesn't affect remote resources at all. After you run standard-version, you still have to ability to review things and correct mistakes if you want to.
They are both based on the same foundation of structured commit messages (using Angular format), but standard-version is a good choice for folks who are not yet comfortable letting publishes go out automatically. In this way, you can view standard-version as an incremental step to adopting semantic-release.
We think they are both fantastic tools, and we encourage folks to use semantic-release instead of standard-version if it makes sense for them.
The instructions to squash commits when merging pull requests assumes that one PR equals, at most, one feature or fix.
If you have multiple features or fixes landing in a single PR and each commit uses a structured message, then you can do a standard merge when accepting the PR. This will preserve the commit history from your branch after the merge.
Although this will allow each commit to be included as separate entries in your CHANGELOG, the entries will not be able to reference the PR that pulled the changes in because the preserved commit messages do not include the PR number.
For this reason, we recommend keeping the scope of each PR to one general feature or fix. In practice, this allows you to use unstructured commit messages when committing each little change and then squash them into a single commit with a structured message (referencing the PR number) once they have been reviewed and accepted.
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FAQs
replacement for `npm version` with automatic CHANGELOG generation
The npm package standard-version receives a total of 435,761 weekly downloads. As such, standard-version popularity was classified as popular.
We found that standard-version demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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