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Publish monorepo packages with Changesets

Riley Tomasek

Changesets makes it easy to publish public and/or private packages to NPM from a monorepo.

Features

  • Specify packages in a monorepo to publish
  • Update package version numbers
  • Append to changelogs
  • Create git tags for the release
  • Publish to NPM

Usage Commands

  • changeset add specifies which packages to release
  • changeset version updates package versions and changelogs
  • changeset publish adds a git tag and publishes to NPM

Usage Notes

  • Adding private: true to a package.json will prevent it from being published to NPM
  • Use publishConfig in package.json when publishing scoped packages (@acme/xxx) with public for publicly available packages and restricted for private packages.
  • The Changesets GitHub Action with the Changeset GitHub Bot will create a PR after a PR with a changeset has been merged. Merging the PR created by Changeset automations will publish to NPM, update Git tags, and create a GitHub release.