release.md

Release checklist (note to self)

• check status of GitHub issue(s) and/or milestone(s)
• TODO investigate adding to package.json:
  • readme
  • license
  • change the main to the minified file; add a dev file
  • do a test beta publish, if necessary
  • see https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json
• (optional) update copyright year (LICENSE, package.json)
• update README changelog
• (optional) backup node_module; fresh install with npm install
• create dist:

grunt dist

• git rm previous artifacts from dist/ directory
• update download hyperlinks at top of README (update download sizes in kb)
• release commit:

git commit -m "0.x.0 release"

• tag release:

git tag -a -m "0.x.0 release" 0.x.0

• push commit including tag:

git push --tags origin master

• recompile the documentup page; go to:

documentup.com/<repo-owner>/backbone-nestify/recompile

• copy relevant files to gh-pages branch: README, dist/

git checkout gh-pages
git checkout master README.md dist

• modify gh-pages:index.html, update script
• commit

git commit -m "gh-pages 0.x.0"

• close GitHub release milestone, if there is one
• publish to npmjs.org

npm publish .

or

npm publish . --tag 0.x.0
npm tag backbone-nestify@0.x.0 latest

or

npm publish . --tag 0.x.0-beta

then later

npm tag backbone-nestify@0.x.0 latest

Post-release checklist

(sometime prior to next dev commit in master)

• increment version number (package.json)
• (optional) update "dev" dist artifacts