Release and build number appender to package.json version
If you use Artifactory on premise to publish node projects, you need to update the version each time you publish new builds.
This package allow Jenkins or other build system to update the version in your project with the current build number given by jenkins optionally with a pre-release version.
Reference: semver.org spec
This package is for node.js projects that contain package.json files.
npm install -g release-version
Once the package has been globally installed it may be used from from any path
release-version -r 2
given current version 1.0.0 will create version: 1.0.0-rc.2
release-version -b build.420 -p /path/to/project
version 1.0.0 will result in: 1.0.0+build.420 on the package.json located in /path/to/project
release-version -r alpha -b 2 --pre ''
version 1.0.0 will result in: 1.0.0-alpha+2
release-version -r beta --pre ''
version 1.0.0 will result in: 1.0.0-beta