[Chore] Changelog

[noraj]

Issue

The project has no changelog.

Example of context

I updated from v1 to v2 and my search form broke (as expected there are breaking changes in major versions)

-    "itemsjs": "^1.0.49",
+    "itemsjs": "^2.1.10",

Now I have to fix my code but since there is no changelog I have no clue in which version a breaking change was introduced nor what or where it is.

Solution

Document all changes in a changelog.

[cigolpl]

@noraj could you advise what is the best practice here ? I see there are even tools for auto generating changelog like https://github.com/cookpete/auto-changelog

[noraj]

I'm writing them manually eg. https://github.com/noraj/haiti/blob/master/docs/CHANGELOG.md

Usually only massive projects with hundreds of contributors are using automated changelog because they have dozens of commit per hour so doing it manually would be too much.

Automatic chagelog requires to have a strict commit convention.

Big projects are more using https://www.conventionalcommits.org and https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version rather than https://keepachangelog.com and https://github.com/cookpete/auto-changelog.

Example of workflow: https://www.mokkapps.de/blog/how-to-automatically-generate-a-helpful-changelog-from-your-git-commit-messages/

In my opinion, it's less work to write the chagelog manually for small projects.

[cigolpl]

I've added a historical releases. They work like a changelog also.