Increment NPM Version only on Master

[andreiborodin]

I would like to use the same NPM pipeline to build and push release package, for that I want to increment the versions only on master branches.

[ryantrem]

Is the idea here that you would create a release branch and manually set the full version, and then release out of this branch?

[andreiborodin]

Yes. Let's say we just released version 0.8.0, here is the workflow:

• Master package.json still says 0.8.0
• Every build on master invokes npm version which will increment the patch and add prerelease, so 0.8.1-11202019.1
• We decide that we are ready to release 0.9.0, we update master to 0.9.0, builds go to 0.9.1-11202019.1
• We branch to release, and build the 0.9.0 package

This way, master will always be ahead of any release as the release is based on current checked-in version.