Clean project history with SemVer and changelogs

Learn how to share the updates of your software with collaborators, users and other stakeholders in a clear and understandable way.

Automate the process of writing the project history following the industry standards and best practices.

In this workshop we will:

• discuss various approaches to versioning
• deep-dive into Semantic Versioning, by far the most popular versioning scheme nowadays
• talk about different sources of truth about the history of a project
• define what a changelog is and where we can store it to make it accessible for everyone
• learn how to maintain parallel flows of versioning within a project
• write some ahead of the curve functional code featuring monoids, mjs and tagged templates
• build from scratch a dependency-free versioning tool in Node that is capable of deducing the next version to come up and creating changelogs

List of requirements

• basic knowledge of Git including common commands (commit, push, log)
• good understanding of JavaScript (ES6+)
• at least intermediate English
• a laptop with Internet access and a code editor of your choice
• an active GitHub account
• GitHub repo (link to be added soon) forked and cloned to the local machine
• Node Latest installed on the machine (v13.12.0 at the time of writing)
• Git installed on the machine (v2.21.0 at the time of writing)