Automatically Bumping the NPM PatchVersion

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Scenario

We currently have our package.json patch version from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 .

Approach

Install version-bump-prompt :

version-bump-prompt

npm install -g version-bump-prompt

In your project directory run:

bump patch

Result:

✔ Updated package.json to 1.1.2
✔ Updated package-lock.json to 1.1.2

Bonus

Automating publishing:

"scripts": {
    "dist": ...
    "patch": "bump patch && npm run dist && cd dist && npm publish"
}

And:

npm run patch