standard-version VS commitlint

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We can use standard-version tool to generate a changelog, bump the version of app and create a new tag automatically.

There are many great tools to help with automation here, some of them are action-semantic-pull-request to enforce conventional commits and standard version to bump the version and create a changelog according to the conventional commits.

I tried gitmoji and followed Make everyone in your project write beautiful commit messages using commitlint and commitizen by @sohandutta, but end up using the setting in this article because it's not compatible to changelog generation of standard-version (Ref: Issue #859)

As a bonus point, the issues you create in your repository can also serve as part of the documentation. You can outline new features there and you will even be able to generate changelogs from the merged pull requests (like I do using conventional-changelog/standard-version).

There’s also a husky precommit hook with ESlint and Prettier fixing and formatting changed code on every commit with lint-staged which makes sure malformed code doesn't even make it to the Pull Request. Combined with standard-version and strict commit messages it makes releasing and changelog generation a breeze. For a contributor the workflow is as smooth as:

But you can also automate even more, if, for example, you write according to Conventional Commits, you can also automate the creation of tags using the standard-version library.

# Changelog All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See \[standard-version\](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines. ## 1.1.0 (2021-07-12) ### Features * **new-feature:** add a new-feature to our project 11c0322

Standard Version

So this is like standard-version with less features?

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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