release.yml

name: release
on:
  # Automatically run when a semver tag is pushed
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*.*.*'

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # Checkout action retreive the source (git clone)
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0 # needed to retreive all git history

      # Enable corepack, note that nodejs is already installed
      - run: corepack enable

      # Setup pnpm with cache
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
          cache: "pnpm"

      # Compute tag and capitalized product name
      - id: meta
        name: release meta
        run: |
          project=${GITHUB_REPOSITORY#*/}
          echo "PROJECT=${project}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          echo "PROJECT_CAP=${project^}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          echo "TAG=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      # This is where we generate releases assets.
      # It use a github action in the current directory 
      # which contains a shell script to create the archive. 
      # The archive path is stored in the output action
      - id: build_template
        name: build release template
        uses: ./.github/actions/build-template-action
        with:
          tag: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.TAG }}
          project: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.PROJECT }}

      # We re-generate the changelog using a subset of standard-version
      # The content is generated in a temp /CHANGELOG_RELEASE.md file
      # It is used to generate the body of the github release
      - id: changelog
        name: release changelog
        run: |
          pnpm dlx conventional-changelog-cli -p conventionalcommits -r 2 -o ${{ github.workspace }}/CHANGELOG_RELEASE.md
          cat ${{ github.workspace }}/CHANGELOG_RELEASE.md

      # Prepare the draft github release
      - id: create_release
        name: create github draft release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          # Use outputs from meta and changelog
          tag_name: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.TAG }}
          name: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.PROJECT_CAP }} ${{ steps.meta.outputs.TAG }}
          body_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/CHANGELOG_RELEASE.md
          prerelease: false
          # The draft is required to allow file upload
          draft: true
          fail_on_unmatched_files: true
          # Here we bind files built by custom actions to the release
          files: |
            ${{ github.workspace }}/${{ steps.build_template.outputs.filepath }}

      # Publish the github release
      # Dojo listen to those events
      - name: publish github draft release
        uses: eregon/publish-release@v1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.APP_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          release_id: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.id }}