semantic-release VS commitlint

I'm trying to improve the security behind our release process, which uses semantic-release. During this process, it creates a change log which is committed to the repo, publishes a package and a few other things.

Conventional commits specification contains a set of rules for creating an explicit commit history, which makes it easier to write automated tools on top of, for example, semantic release. You can manually follow this convention in your project or use a tool to assist you, such as Commitizen.

When working with JavaScript projects, managing version numbers and commit messages is important for the maintainability of the project. Since 2020 I have been the main developer of Atomic Calendar Revive a highly customisable Home Assistant calendar card, I found maintaining versions and releases to be cumbersome until recently. In this article, I will introduce the commitizen and semantic-release packages for creation or appropriate commit messages and semantic versioning. I will also provide examples of how I am currently using these packages to streamline my release workflow and project maintenance.

To further streamline deployments, I introduced semantic-release. This tool automates commit tagging and tracks changes since the previous version. As a result, deployments now occur only when new tags are present, saving us valuable minutes.

If your projects ar made in javascript and related tools, I'd suggest you to check: semantic-release

Apart from these we also need to enforce standards for all our commit messages(commit-lint).

There are many features of commitlint that I can't mention one by one, as well as installation guide. To know the detail you can directly access https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint.

These commit message prefixes can help to provide context and organization in a project's version control history, making it easier to understand and track changes over time. Note: if you want to force these rules on commit messages, here is a commit linting lib for you. Commitlint

Commit Lint

I personally find it quite useful to enforce a uniform commit style. commitlint pairs well with husky.

⧗ input: Set up Conventional Commits using Husky and commitlint ✖ subject may not be empty [subject-empty] ✖ type may not be empty [type-empty] ✖ found 2 problems, 0 warnings ⓘ Get help: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/#what-is-commitlint husky - commit-msg hook exited with code 1 (error)

Can setup tools like Commitlint to add hooks that will reject a commit message if it is invalid, but if you format a commit message incorrectly it simply closes the commit buffer and returns to git status, meaning you have to retype out your commit message, which is obviously less than ideal.

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