Creating a release and publishing the package

In this recipe, we are going to create a workflow that will publish our package whenever a release is created.

Getting ready

Create a new branch:

$ git switch -c add-release-workflow

How to do it…

1. Create a new .github/workflows/release.yml workflow file. Name the workflow Release and trigger it on the creation of GitHub releases:

   name: Release
   on:
     release:
       types: [created]

2. Add a publish job and give it read permission for the repository and write for packages:

   jobs:
     publish:
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       permissions:
         packages: write
         contents: read

3. Check out the code and configure the NodeJS environment with the correct version. Also, set the registry to use GitHub:

   steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: actions/setup-node...