Show latest version number on website

[Daniel15]

What do you think of this?

[xtuc]

Like showing the version used in the REPL?

[Daniel15]

Yeah, something like that. See how the Yarn site does it for example: https://yarnpkg.com/

The version in the REPL comes from the version property on Babel itself (via babel-standalone). The REPL takes a while to load, so it'd be good to have the version number on the home page somewhere too.

[xtuc]

Yes that would be great. How do you update it in Yarn? Since we have two different repo it's a bit trickier, see #1239

[Daniel15]

How do you update it in Yarn?

The version number is stored in _config.yml, and part of the automated process for publishing a new release is bumping that number:
https://github.com/yarnpkg/website/blob/master/scripts/set-version.sh
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/jenkins_jobs.groovy#L27-L28

This version number is also served from https://yarnpkg.com/latest-version, which is the source of truth for anyone wanting the version number for the latest Yarn version.

[hzoo]

Yeah we had it at the bottom of the site a long time ago but it was removed later

[hzoo]

Might be covered in #1485 when we have versions and we create a new version on release?

[hzoo]

Moving to #1633