feat: Added CHANGELOG.md and updated related documentation.

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Official minimal Highcharts wrapper for Angular
 4. [Demo app](#demo-app)
     1. [Play with the app](#play-with-the-app)
     2. [Files to play with](#files-to-play-with)
+5. [Changing the Component](#changing-the-component)
 
 
 
@@ -232,11 +233,11 @@ A map is JSON type file containing mapData code used when a chart is created. Do
 
 ```js
 (function (factory) {
-	if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
-		module.exports = factory;
-	} else {
-		factory(Highcharts);
-	}
+  if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
+    module.exports = factory;
+  } else {
+    factory(Highcharts);
+  }
 }(function (Highcharts) {
 
 ...
@@ -280,11 +281,11 @@ A wrapper is a [custom extension](https://www.highcharts.com/docs/extending-high
 
 ```js
 (function (factory) {
-	if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
-		module.exports = factory;
-	} else {
-		factory(Highcharts);
-	}
+  if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
+    module.exports = factory;
+  } else {
+    factory(Highcharts);
+  }
 }(function (Highcharts) {
 
 ...
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ Contains Angular main component that uses the *chart* component.
 Contains the chart component that creates Highcharts chart.
 
 
-## Developing/Changing the highcharts-angular Component
+## Changing the Component
 
 Using Angular CLI v6, the library must be manually rebuilt on each change 
 in order to reflect in the demo app. 
@@ -393,3 +394,5 @@ refresh the browser a second time after the live reload in order to see the chan
 
 See [https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/stories-create-library](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/stories-create-library)
 for details on library builds.
+
+For CHANGELOG.md update use `npm run release`.

package.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "build": "node tasks/build.js",
     "test": "ng test highcharts-angular",
     "lint": "ng lint highcharts-angular",
-    "publish": "node tasks/build.js && node tasks/publish.js",
+    "release": "cd ./highcharts-angular && standard-version && node tasks/build.js && node tasks/release.js",
     "e2e": "ng e2e"
   },
   "dependencies": {
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
     "ng-packagr": "^3.0.0-rc.2",
     "protractor": "~5.1.2",
+    "standard-version": "^4.4.0",
     "ts-node": "~4.1.0",
     "tsickle": ">=0.25.5",
     "tslib": "^1.7.1",

tasks/publish.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /**
  * Publishes the package from the dist/highcharts-angular directory.
+ * Note: publishing manually, but keeping the file just in case.
  */
 
 const child_process = require( 'child_process' ),

tasks/release.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/**
+ * Prepare for release.
+ * Copy CHANGELOG.md up into the main dir.
+ */
+
+const child_process = require( 'child_process' ),
+      fs = require( 'fs' ),
+      path = require( 'path' );
+
+const rootDir = path.normalize( __dirname + '/..' ),
+      distDir = `${rootDir}/dist/highcharts-angular`;
+
+// Copy CHANGELOG.md to the main folder for GitHub
+console.log( 'Copying dist/highcharts-angular/CHANGELOG.md to the main directory' );
+fs.copyFileSync( `${distDir}/CHANGELOG.md`, `${rootDir}/CHANGELOG.md` );
+
+// Further instructions
+console.log( '-------------------------------------------------------' );
+console.log( 'Push as `git push --follow-tags origin master`' );
+console.log( 'Publish in `./dist/highcharts-angular` as `npm publish`' );