Prepare Release

Ask the user for the bump type (patch | minor | major) if not provided.

Each publishable package is bumped independently — only packages that have changed since the last release tag are bumped (and later published). Packages may drift in version over time; this is fine because cross-package dependencies use caret ranges.

1. Fetch latest origin/main and tags

bash
git fetch origin main --tags

2. Identify the last release tag

bash
LAST_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 origin/main)
echo "Last release: $LAST_TAG"

3. Detect changed packages

For each publishable package (skip react-cookie-demo), check whether its directory has changed since $LAST_TAG:

bash
BUMP_TYPE='<patch|minor|major>'
CHANGED=()
for pkg in react-cookie universal-cookie universal-cookie-express universal-cookie-koa; do
  if ! git diff --quiet "$LAST_TAG" origin/main -- "packages/$pkg/"; then
    CHANGED+=("$pkg")
  fi
done

if [ ${#CHANGED[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "No packages changed since $LAST_TAG — nothing to release."
  exit 1
fi

echo "Changed packages: ${CHANGED[*]}"

4. Compute new versions per package and pick release version

Each changed package bumps from its own current version on origin/main. The release version (used for the branch name and PR title) is the highest new version across all bumped packages.

bash
RELEASE_VERSION=""
declare -A NEW_VERSIONS
for pkg in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do
  NV=$(node -p "
    const v = JSON.parse(require('child_process').execSync('git show origin/main:packages/$pkg/package.json')).version.split('.').map(Number);
    const t = '$BUMP_TYPE';
    if (t==='major') { v[0]++; v[1]=0; v[2]=0; }
    else if (t==='minor') { v[1]++; v[2]=0; }
    else { v[2]++; }
    v.join('.')
  ")
  NEW_VERSIONS[$pkg]=$NV
  if [ -z "$RELEASE_VERSION" ] || [ "$(printf '%s\n%s' "$NV" "$RELEASE_VERSION" | sort -V | tail -1)" = "$NV" ]; then
    RELEASE_VERSION=$NV
  fi
done
echo "Release version: v$RELEASE_VERSION"
for pkg in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do echo "  $pkg -> ${NEW_VERSIONS[$pkg]}"; done

5. Create release branch off origin/main

bash
git checkout -b release/v$RELEASE_VERSION origin/main

6. Bump versions for changed packages only

bash
for pkg in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do
  NV=${NEW_VERSIONS[$pkg]}
  node -e "const f='packages/$pkg/package.json';const p=require('./'+f);p.version='$NV';require('fs').writeFileSync(f,JSON.stringify(p,null,2)+'\n')"
done

Verify with grep -H '"version"' packages/*/package.json.

7. Commit, push, open PR with auto-merge

Use the commit skill. Stage only packages/*/package.json. Title Bump to v$RELEASE_VERSION. Body lists each bumped package:

Release v$RELEASE_VERSION

- <pkg> -> <new-version>

After PR is open, enable auto-merge:

bash
gh pr merge --auto --squash