@kibibit/announce-it

Announcing your application releases on social media

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How to install

Install this package as a dev dependency:

npm install --save-dev @kibibit/announce-it

How to use

Intended to run after a new release in your continues integration

Twitter Setup

You have to create a Developer Account on Twitter.

• Create an App
• From your apps list go to your app Details
• Select the Keys and tokens tab
• You'll need all 4 variables available in that page:
  • API key
  • API secret key
  • Access token
  • Access token secret

As a command line tool

• You need to pass the following parameters by either ENV parameters or calling the cli with these as cli params:

  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = API key
  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = API secret key
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = Access token
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = Access token secret
  • branch = the current branch

  As CLI params:

  ./node_modules/.bin/announce-it --CONSUMER_KEY <key> --CONSUMER_SECRET <secret> --ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY <key> --ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET <secret> --branch <branchName>

  Both ENV parameters and the CLI arguments have the same names. If a parameter is found in both places, the CLI argument will be used.

• You can add a dedicated script in your package.json file:

  // ...
  "scripts": {
    // ...
    "announce": "announce-it"
  }
  // ...

• If executed with @semanic-release/exec:

  because of a current issue with @semantic-release/exec, you need to pass the current branch directly

  "release": {
    "branches": [ /* ... */ ]
    // ...
    "success": [
      "@semantic-release/github",
      [
        "@semantic-release/exec",
        {
          "successCmd": "npm start -- --branch $TRAVIS_BRANCH"
        }
      ]
    ],
  }
    // ...
  // ...

• If installed as a project dependency, you can run with npx:

  # should be ran inside your project
  # npx
  npx announce-it
  
  # directly 
  ./node_modules/.bin/announce-it

• If installed globally, you can run it from within any node package with the correct setup

As a node module

import { KbAnnounceIt, PackageDetails } from '@kibibit/announce-it';

const announceIt = new KbAnnounceIt({
  accessTokenKey: 'TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY',
  accessTokenSecret: 'TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET',
  consumerKey: 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY',
  consumerSecret: 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET',
  branch: 'CURRENT_BRANCH'
});

const myPackage: PackageDetails = require('./package');

// get generated tweet
const tweet: string = announceIt.generateTweet(myPackage);

console.log('going to tweet: ', tweet);

// publish tweet to twitter
announceIt.announceRelease(myPackage);

Defining your Templates

Inside your package.json file, add an announcements object with tweet property.

You can then create your own tweet message template that will be posted to twitter.

{
  "name": "my-package",
  "version": "2.4.3",
  // ...
  "announcements": {
    "tweet": "Version <%= version %> of <%= package %> is live! <%= npmpage %>"
  },
}

The tweet template is generated with Lodash template.

You can use these variables:

• Package name: <%= package %>
• Version number: <%= version %>
• Package description: <%= description %>
• Package author: <%= author %>
• Homepage link: <%= homepage %>
• Package page on npm: <%= npmpage %>

Contributing

If you have suggestions for how announce-it could be improved, or want to report a bug, open an issue! We'd love all and any contributions.

For more, check out the Contributing Guide.

Contributors

Thanks goes to our contributors! (emoji key):

Gil Tichon 🚇 💻 📆

Neil Kalman 🚇 🤔

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License

MIT © 2019 Gil Tichon ZimGil@kibibit.io