Release notes

• Fix tslint in tooltip (to run npm publish)
• Use Node v12.13 in CircleCI config.yml

Checklists

Release preparation

• Create new release-x.x.x branch (based on develop branch)
• Collect changes and write release notes
• Draft release PR in GitHub that merges the release-x.x.x into the master branch

Update version

• Check version numbers of dependencies again
• Check if build is successful
• Update this version number following semver
• Commit and push package.json with new version number
• Wait until build is successful
• Assign reviewer and wait for final review
• Merge this pull request into master branch
• Add release label (i.e., release: major, release: minor, or release: patch)

Publish npm release

The steps of this section are only necessary if the code is public and should be published to the npm registry.

• chmod -R o+w . in the cloned repository directory (to provide write access to the CirleCI Linux user)
• rm -rf dist && rm -rf build && rm -rf node_modules/ && rm -rf package-lock.json
• docker run -it -v $(pwd):/phovea circleci/node:12.13-buster-browsers /bin/bash and continue inside the container
• cd /phovea
• npm install
• npm run build to build the bundles
• npm login as caleydo-bot
• npm publish
• Check release on npmjs.com

Create GitHub release

• Draft a new release (Code -> Releases -> Draft a new release)
• Use new version number as tag (e.g., v2.3.1)
• Copy release notes
• Publish release

Prepeare next develop release

• Switch to develop branch
• Merge master branch into develop (git merge origin/master)
• Commit and push changes

🏁 Finish line

• Inform colleagues and customers about the release
• Celebrate the new release 🥳