Allow Publish Tag

Allow publish tag prevents your NPM package from being accidentally published with latest dist-tag for prereleases, e.g. alpha, beta, etc. Instead it enforces you to use proper dist-tag (next by default). It works with prepublishOnly hook from package.json.

Installation

npm i allow-publish-tag

Usage

1. Add prepublishOnly script in package.json.
2. Run npm publish when you're ready to publish your package, or npm publish --dry-run.

Example package.json:

{
  "version" : "1.0.0-alpha.1",
  "scripts": {
    "prepublishOnly": "allow-publish-tag"
  }
}

Configuration

You can configure allow publish tag to use ccustom release scheme. For example use nightly and beta prereleases, like Electron does:

{
  "version" : "1.0.0-nightly.1",
  "scripts": {
    "prepublishOnly": "allow-publish-tag"
  },
  "allowPublishTags": {
    // Match all nightly or beta releases e.g "nightly", "beta.3", etc.
    "next": "{nightly,beta}?(.+([0-9]))"
  }
}

API

CLI

allow-publish-tags [...TAGS]

• [...TAGS] – is a list of allowed dist-tags to be used with the current package version from package.json.

Using CLI with TAGS specified will allow to publish current version with any of provided dist-tags. If this list is empty, then allowPublishTag field from package.json will be used as configuration. If there is no allowPublishTag field, then the default configuration will be used.

AllowPublishTagRecord

AllowPublishTagFlag | AllowPublishTagList | AllowPublishTagDict

Configuration value AllowPublishTagRecord describes the value of allowPublishTag field of package.json.

AllowPublishTagFlag

true

Boolean value true turns default APT configuration on.

Example:

{
  "allowPublishTag": true
}

AllowPublishTagList

Array<string>|string

Array should contain allowed prerelease names for the next dist-tag, which are strings or picomatch-compatible glob patterns.

Example:

{
  "allowPublishTag": ["alpha", "beta", "pre.*"]
}

AllowPublishTagDict

{
  [string]: Array<string>|string,
  '*': Array<string>|string,
}

Dictionary contains records where key is a dist-tag and value is a list of allowed prereleases. Prerelease name could be a string or a picomatch-compatible glob pattern. If there is the asterisk key, then this rules will match all dist-tags.

Example:

{
  "allowPublishTag": {
    "next": "{alpha,beta,rc}?(.+([0-9]))"
  }
}

License

MIT.