Semantic Commitlint

📦🚀 + 📓 A continuous integration build tool to ensure all new commits meet your commit message format! ️️

Problem

📦🚀 semantic-release depends on properly formatted commit messages
📓 commitlint is awesome, but it doesn't know which commits occurred since your last release

Solution

semantic-commitlint fills the gap between semantic-release and commitlint by asking commitlint to lint new commit messages that have not been included in a previous release

Features

Run in CI on all branches to ensure that only builds with valid commit messages pass
Wraps semantic-release and commitlint for an easy install
Minimal config

Install

npm install semantic-commitlint --save-dev

Setup

Add the following to your package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "semantic-commitlint": "semantic-commitlint",
    "semantic-release": "semantic-release"
  },
  "release": {
    "verifyRelease": ["semantic-commitlint"]
  }
}

Setup semantic-release authentication for CI

Usage

Add the following commands to your CI build process

npm run semantic-commitlint -- --ci
npm run semantic-release

Local usage

To get early feedback on commit messages you can add the following to a commit hook or your regular set of tests.

npm run semantic-commitlint

This allows your project's contributors to get early feedback on their last commit message instead of waiting for CI to fail a build.

Last commit only - this will not validate all new commit messages because Github auth is required to gather commits that have been added since the last release.

Config

Skip commits

If there are unreleased commits that shouldn't fail a build, then add them to your package.json inside the semanticCommitlint config.

{
  "semanticCommitlint": {
    "skipCommits": ["a1be371"]
  }
}

Custom lint functions

To add a custom lint function add your function's path in package.json.

{
  "semanticCommitlint": {
    "lintFunctions": ["./my-function.js"]
  }
}

The function itself works like this:

// my-function.js
function customValidation(commitMessage, report) {
  if (commitMessage.includes('something bad')) {
    report.valid = false;
    report.errors.push({
      level: 2,
      valid: false,
      name: 'type-bad',
      message: 'Commit message should have been better!'
    });
  }
}
 
module.exports = customValidation;

External config

This project just ties together some functionality from two external projects. For all other config options make sure to read through the docs.

Commit hooks

You can prevent invalid commit messages from every being created by using Git hooks!

Add husky

npm install --save-dev husky@next

Update package.json

{
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "prepare-commit-msg": "npm run semantic-commitlint -- -h"
    }
  }
}

Issues

Not all features implemented in semantic-release and commitlint are currently available when using semantic-commtlint. If you have a suggestion, please open an issue. Thanks!

License

semantic-commitlint is licensed under the MIT Open Source license. For more information, see the LICENSE file in this repository.