Kickout

Conveniently Release Git-Versioned NPM Package

Abstract

This is a small opinionated Command-Line Interface (CLI) for conveniently releasing a Git-versioned NPM package. It performs sanity checks, bumps the semantic version in package.json, commits the changes to Git, tags the repository with the new version and publishes the package via NPM. The particular executed command are:

$ git status --porcelain
$ npm prepublish
$ npm view <package-name> version
# update package.json with <package-version>
$ git commit -m "release version <package-version>" package.json
$ git tag <package-version>
$ git push && git push --tags
$ npm publish --tag=<package-tag>

Attention

The executed shell commands might garble or even destroy some of your data. Hence, be very careful and use the Kickout command on your own risk. Especially, perform a dry-run with option --noop always first to see what particular commands would be executed. Also notice that the initial "npm publish" intentionally has to be performed manually.

Installation

$ npm install -g kickout

Usage

$ kickout [-h] [-V] [-C] [-m <message>] [-t <tag>] major|minor|patch

• -h, --help
  Show program help information.
• -V, --version
  Show program version information.
• -C, --noColor
  Do not use any colors in output.
• -n, --noop
  Do not execute any destructive commands at all.
• -m <message>, --message <message>
  Use custom commit message (instead of release version <version>).
• -t <tag>, --tag <tag>
  Use particular NPM package tag (instead of latest).

License

Copyright (c) 2017-2025 Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall (http://engelschall.com/)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.