changing the version number in the manifest.json file
tagging the release
building the project
zipping the source code
all manually. This process is cumbersome, and it causes me to make mistakes, as well as producing releases slowly. Ideally, I'd like to be able to publish to the stores automatically as soon as a release is built, but that might be tricky due to the lack of tools out there currently to publish to the stores via an API; however, there's no reason to not to have a simple CI pipeline that'll simplify this process.
Create a new release
Every time there's a new release, we'd like to:
update the manifest.json with the new tag
build the source code and make the ZIP archive available
create a ZIP archive of the source code, excluding the dependencies
This way, I can simply download the files and upload them to the stores as a first step.
So far I have been manually:
manifest.jsonfileall manually. This process is cumbersome, and it causes me to make mistakes, as well as producing releases slowly. Ideally, I'd like to be able to publish to the stores automatically as soon as a release is built, but that might be tricky due to the lack of tools out there currently to publish to the stores via an API; however, there's no reason to not to have a simple CI pipeline that'll simplify this process.
Create a new release
Every time there's a new release, we'd like to:
manifest.jsonwith the new tagThis way, I can simply download the files and upload them to the stores as a first step.