Publish, please!

CLI tool and Gulp plugin that allows you publish npm modules safely and gracefully.

So what it does exactly?

• Can run tests or build steps before publishing (because prepublish is broken).
• Performs sensitive information audit (Further reading: Do not underestimate credentials leaks).
• Checks that you are in the correct git branch.
• Checks that git tag matches version specified in the package.json.
• Checks that there are no uncommitted changes in the working tree.
• Checks that there are no untracked files in the working tree.
• Can force usage of the npm publish tag.
• Provides release summary and asks for the confirmation.
• Can be configured via .publishrc file.
• Can be used as CLI tool or Gulp plugin.

Install

As CLI tool:

npm install -g publish-please

As Gulp plugin:

npm install --save-dev publish-please

Usage

As CLI tool

cd to_your_project_dir
publish-please

That's it. You can change publish configuration using .publishrc file.

As Gulp plugin

const gulp    = require('gulp');
const publish = require('publish-please');

...

// NOTE: you can setup prepublish actions as the dependency for the task
gulp.task('publish', ['test'], () => publish(options));

options will override options specified in the .publishrc file.

Options

• confirm - Ask for the confirmation before publishing. Default: true.
• sensitiveDataAudit - Perform audit for the sensitive data. Default: true.
• checkUncommitted - Check that there are no uncommitted changes in the working tree. Default: true.
• checkUntracked - Check that there are no untracked files in the working tree. Default: true.
• validateGitTag - Check that git tag matches version specified in the package.json. Default: true.
• validateBranch - Check that current branch matches the specified branch. Default: master.
• tag - Specifies tag with which package will be published. See npm publish docs for more info. Default: latest.
• prepublishScript - Specifies command that will be run before publish (e.g. npm test). Use it for builds and tests. Default: null.

.publishrc file

You can specify publish options in the JSON form via .publishrc file in your project directory. E.g.:

{
    "validateGitTag":   false,
    "validateBranch":   "master",
    "tag":              "beta",
    "prepublishScript": "mocha"
}

Sensitive information audit

Important note: tool provides some very basic sensitive data check. Do not rely on it fully. Always perform manual checks for the sensitive data in your packages.

Performed for the following items:

• Private SSH key
• Potential cryptographic private key
• Potential cryptographic key bundle
• Pidgin OTR private key
• Shell command history file
• MySQL client command history file
• PostgreSQL client command history file
• Ruby IRB console history file
• Pidgin chat client account configuration file
• Hexchat/XChat IRC client server list configuration file
• Irssi IRC client configuration file
• Recon-ng web reconnaissance framework API key database
• DBeaver SQL database manager configuration file
• Mutt e-mail client configuration file
• S3cmd configuration file
• T command-line Twitter client configuration file
• OpenVPN client configuration file
• Well, this is awkward... Gitrob configuration file
• Shell configuration file
• Shell profile configuration file
• Shell command alias configuration file
• Ruby On Rails secret token configuration file
• OmniAuth configuration file
• Carrierwave configuration file
• Ruby On Rails database schema file
• Potential Ruby On Rails database configuration file
• Django configuration file
• PHP configuration file
• KeePass password manager database file
• 1Password password manager database file
• Apple Keychain database file
• GNOME Keyring database file
• Log file
• Network traffic capture file
• SQL dump file
• GnuCash database file
• Contains word: backup
• Contains word: dump
• Contains word: password
• Contains words: private, key
• Jenkins publish over SSH plugin file
• Potential Jenkins credentials file
• Apache htpasswd file
• Configuration file for auto-login process
• KDE Wallet Manager database file
• Potential MediaWiki configuration file
• Tunnelblick VPN configuration file
• Rubygems credentials file
• Potential MSBuild publish profile
• PHP dotenv

Author

Ivan Nikulin ([email protected])