releasetrain v1.4.0

🚂🚃 releaseTrain

🛤️ A node.js helper 📦 to improve your CICD pipeline & app release process, fear no more and bring on the releaseTrain!

Auto cuts a branch based on current source of truth. Creates new branch (RC-version), sets upstream and pushes to origin Notifies via slack

• 📦 Install
• 🚉 Configure
• 🛤️ Set Configuration
• 🚂 Start the release train!
• 🚋 Notifications

Install

npm add releasetrain

Configure

Add the following short hands to your package.json, and configure the following:

• appName: your app name (gets included in slack alert)
• hookUrl: a valid slack incoming webhook token to your workspace
• channel: a valid channel within the given hookUrl to send notification to (uses slack api)
• username: (optional) username to send the notification as

More to come...

    "releaseTrain:setConfig": "cd ./node_modules/releasetrain && npm run releaseTrain-config --appName=APP_NAME --hookUrl=INSERT_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE --channel=YOUR_CHANNEL --username=USERNAME --releaseVersion=$npm_package_version",
    "releaseTrain:cut": "cd ./node_modules/releasetrain && npm run releaseTrain-cut --releaseVersion=$npm_package_version",
    "releaseTrain:notify": "cd ./node_modules/releasetrain && npm run releaseTrain-notify",

Set Configuration

you can call your configuration which will generate a json file with the information needed to cut the release and send a notification.

npm run releaseTrain:setConfig

Start the release train!

Now you can run (pulls version from package.json) releaseTrain:cut

This will automatically push up a release train branch of RC-*releaseVersion*

Notifications

You can call npm run releaseTrain:notify within your CI step to slack out the train has been cut!