Comparison with release-it

[limonte]

Some people are using https://github.com/webpro/release-it

What would be the advantages of using bump over release-it?

[fabiospampinato]

I'm not familiar with release-it, so if somebody who tried them both would like to join the discussion I'd appreciate it.

They overall seem to provide very very similar features (to the point where maybe I could have saved myself some time and just used release-it 🤔), maybe some differences could be that:

• release-it has better support for monorepos.
• release-it has built-in support for GitLab.
• release-it is a bit too NPM-centric, bump on the other hand is a bit less opinionated in this regard and requires you to define your own publishing script if you want to publish stuff to NPM or somewhere else (which I guess you could also do with release-it though).
• bump can update arbitrary files.
• the way bump generates changelogs is more customizable.
• release-it relies on an external tool (auto-changelog) for generating/updating the changelog.

I think the main difference here might be that bump's support for changelogs is built-in, is more customizable, and it doesn't rely on tags (which I think release-it is relying on, but I'm not 100% sure).