Automatically generate a release when the package.json version changes. The release name and tag will match the new version. If no releases yet exist, this action will create the first release.

The release notes will contain a change log generated from git history in the following format:

- f0d91bd Making progress
- 275e3e2 Initial commit

This action makes a few assumptions:

• actions/checkout@v2 with fetch-depth: 0 is used before this action runs. That allows this action to have all the information it needs to generate the change log from the git history.
• You are only releasing from one branch
• It is only used during push

name: Release
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Release
        uses: justincy/github-action-npm-release@v1.2.0
        id: release
      - name: Print release output
        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.released == 'true' }}
        run: echo Release ID ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_id }}

• token: Personal access token for GitHub authentication. Optional. Defaults to ${{ github.token }}.
• path: Path of the package.json file that will be examined. Optional. Defaults to ${{ github.workspace }}.

• released: Set to true when a release is created.
• html_url: The URL for viewing the release in a browser.
• upload_url: The URL for uploading assets to the release.
• release_id: ID of the release.
• release_tag: Tag of the release.
• release_name: Name of the release.

• Add options for draft and pre-release
• Add option for custom git-log format