newspack-scripts

Scripts for Newspack, heavily inspired by react-scripts.

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Available scripts

Repos consuming the newspack-scripts package can use the following NPM scripts. Prefix each at the command line with npm run (or bun run) to execute.

start

Execute with npm start. This is the only script you run without the run prefix. This will install Composer and NPM dependencies, then run the watch command to start a development build. Best used when cloning a repo for the first time, or when you need to restore a locally cloned repo to a fresh state.

build

Will run wp-scripts build to create optimised production builds.

watch

Will run wp-scripts start to start a development build in devserver/watch mode.

lint:js, lint:scss, lint

Will run wp-scripts lint-js, wp-scripts lint-style, or both. See the @wordpress/scripts handbook for implementation details and additional options.

fix:js

Will run wp-scripts lint-js --fix, allowing ESLint to correct any autofixable code quality errors it finds. Note that code quality errors are separate from formatting, which is handled by format:js (see below).

format:js

Will run wp-scripts format-js to reformat JS files according to Prettier rules. Note that formatting is separate from code quality errors, which are handled by fix:js (see above).

format:scss

Will run wp-scripts lint-style --fix to reformat SCSS files according to Stylelint rules.

test

Will run jest tests. Useful flags:

• --watch to run in file watch mode,
• --coverage to collect test coverage

lint:php, fix:php

Will run phpcs or phpcbf to lint or autofix PHP files, respectively. Note that you must install these PHP packages via composer install or npm start before you can use these locally.

commit

Uses commitizen to create a structured commit message.

commitlint

Lints to commit message, to be used in a git commit-msg hook.

release

Will run semantic-release based on a very opinionated configuration.

typescript-check

Will validate TypeScript code in the project. This requires a tsconfig.json file to be placed in the project root. Example:

{
	"extends": "newspack-scripts/config/tsconfig.json",
	"compilerOptions": {
		"rootDir": "src",
		"jsx": "react-jsx"
	},
	"include": [
		"src",
		"src/**/*.json"
	]
}

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Semantic Release

This package contains a configuration of semantic-release, which can be used for automated software releases, published on Github. It's configured to work with the following repository branch setup:

1. trunk – ongoing development
2. alpha – release candidate
3. hotfix/* - for testing urgent bugfixes
4. epic/* - for testing large-scale features
5. release – the production-ready, released code

The following assumes that CI will run:

1. npm run release for release, alpha, hotfix/*, and epic/* branches
2. post-release.sh script on release branch, after the above command completes

Regular release flow

1. Create a new branch off the trunk branch.
2. Commit changes to your branch using structured commit messages.
3. Open a pull request for review based on trunk. Changes must be tested and approved before merging.
4. Merge approved changes to the trunk branch. When merging into trunk, SQUASH the merge.
5. Merge trunk into alpha to create a release candidate (e.g. 1.2.0-alpha.1). When merging trunk into alpha, DO NOT SQUASH the merge.
6. Merge alpha into release to create a production release (e.g. 1.2.0). When merging alpha into release, DO NOT SQUASH the merge.
7. alpha branch will be reset on top of release.
8. trunk branch will be updated with the changes from the release branch.

Epic feature release flow

For large-scale features that require more than one interdependent branch throughout development.

1. Create a new epic/* branch off the trunk branch. Push the branch to GitHub so all engineers can work off it simultaneously. Keep this branch up-to-date with trunk, to minimize the risk of merge conflicts.
2. Create new sub-branches off the epic branch. Keep sub-branches up-to-date with the epic/* branch, to minimize the risk of merge conflicts.
3. Commit changes to your sub-branches using structured commit messages.
4. Open pull requests for review based on the epic/* branch. Changes must be tested and approved before merging.
5. Merge approved changes to the epic/* branch. When merging into epic/*, DO NOT SQUASH the merge.
6. A new "epic" pre-release (e.g. 1.2.0-epic-feature.1) will be tagged and published when changes are merged via PR. Use epic releases for QA and other pre-release testing.
7. Once all features in the epic/* branch have been tested and approved, open a pull request for final review based on trunk. Final review doesn't require full-scale functional testing, only a review of the changeset (as changes have already been tested in individual PRs).
8. Merge the epic/* branch to the trunk branch. When merging an epic branch into trunk, SQUASH the merge.
9. Once epic/* has been merged to trunk, follow the regular release flow to generate release candidates and production releases.

Hotfix release flow

1. Create a new hotfix/* branch off the release branch.
2. Commit changes to your branch using structured commit messages.
3. Push the branch to Github, so the CI can process it – don't create a PR just yet!*
4. A new "hotfix" pre-release (e.g. 1.2.0-hotfix.1) will be tagged and published.
5. Open a pull request for review based on release. Changes must be tested and approved before merging.
6. Merge the hotfix branch into release to create a release. When merging a hotfix into release, SQUASH the merge.
7. alpha & trunk branches will be updated with the changes from the release branch.

* semantic-release will not release if the CI job was triggered by a PR

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Available configs

This package exposes a couple of configuration files.

Webpack

The webpack.config.js file should use this package's config-extending function:

const getBaseWebpackConfig = require("newspack-scripts/config/getWebpackConfig");

const webpackConfig = getBaseWebpackConfig(
	{
		entry: {
			'output-file': './src/entrypoint-file.js',
		},
	}
);

module.exports = webpackConfig;

Babel

A basic babel.config.js:

module.exports = api => {
	api.cache( true );
	return {
		extends: 'newspack-scripts/config/babel.config.js',
	};
};

ESLint

@wordpress/scripts uses ESLint under the hood for JS code quality linting. Note that this is separate from code formatting, which is handled by Prettier (see below).

Because of ESLint's issue with resolving dependencies of extended configurations, a patch has to be used to use this config in a stand-alone fashion: install @rushstack/eslint-patch and set up the .eslintrc.js like so:

require( '@rushstack/eslint-patch/modern-module-resolution' );

module.exports = {
	extends: [ './node_modules/newspack-scripts/config/eslintrc.js' ],
	// Additional options…
};

Prettier

@wordpress/scripts uses Prettier under the hood for JS formatting. Note that this is separate from code quality, which is handled by ESLint (see above).

To configure Prettier rules, extend this repo's config by creating a .prettierrc.js file like so:

const baseConfig = require( './node_modules/newspack-scripts/config/prettier.config.js' );

module.exports = {
	...baseConfig,
	// Additional options…
};

You should also include a .prettierignore file to tell Prettier which files and directories it should ignore, using gitignore syntax:

dist
node_modules
release
vendor

stylelint

@wordpress/scripts uses Stylelint under the hood for SCSS linting and formatting.

newspack-scripts wp-scripts lint-style '**/*.scss' --customSyntax postcss-scss

Extend this repo's config with a .stylelintrc.js file like so:

module.exports = {
	extends: [ './node_modules/newspack-scripts/config/stylelint.config.js' ],
	// Additional options…
};

TypeScript

See note about typescript-check script above.

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CircleCI Orb

This repository hosts a CircleCI Orb, in /src directory. An Orb is a re-usable configuration – here's an example of how to use it:

version: 2.1

orbs:
  newspack: newspack/[email protected]

workflows:
  version: 2
  all:
    jobs:
      - newspack/build

Updating the Orb

To update the Orb, use CircleCI's CLI's pack and publish commands:

# Replace the `version` at the end (e.g. 1.0.1)
circleci orb pack src/ > orb.yml && circleci orb publish orb.yml newspack/newspack@version

Note that before the first time updating you'll need to set the API key for CircleCI CLI by running $ circleci setup.

Testing locally

1. Copy the path to this repository (e.g. pwd | pbcopy) and "install" it as an npm dependency in the repository on which you wish to test (e.g. npm i /path/to/newspack-scripts). You should end up with a "newspack-scripts": "file:*" entry in package.json instead of a version number.
2. Trigger a script and observe the results, e.g. npm run semantic-release -- --dry-run

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Misc

@wordpress/* packages

This project lists @wordpress/* packages as dependencies in order to provide them to consumers. In a project using @wordpress/scripts (e.g. a consumer of newspack-scripts), the @wordpress/* packages are sourced from WP Core, not node_modules. The packages should be included in node_modules, though, to be available in other environments – notably when running tests. See Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin for more information.