How to execute 'npm script' within github action and use the script output as a package source

[kuncevic]

I have a library that I build with Angular CLI here https://github.com/kuncevic/rx-service
In order to release a new version of the library manually I had to to this steps:

1. ng build --prod
2. cd dist/library-name
3. npm publish

It just can be looks like a single npm script "publish": "ng build --prod && cd dist/library-name && npm publish"

I want to release that library using github actions so the steps above needs to be executed within an action, by looking in to npm-publish-action but didn't found a way to achieve that.

Any ideas?

[pascalgn]

I think it might be enough to add this to the prepublish step (see https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts) in package.json like this:

  "scripts": {
    "prepublish": "ng build --prod"
  }

Regarding the cd dist/library-name part, this is implemented in #15, I will have a look at it now!

[kuncevic]

Just tested out by following the steps:

1. prepublish script https://github.com/kuncevic/rx-service/blob/master/package.json#L11
2. workspace dir https://github.com/kuncevic/rx-service/blob/master/.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml#L23
3. release commit angularconsulting/rx-service@b34eefd

In result I've got the action triggered https://github.com/kuncevic/rx-service/actions/runs/186705728 but nothing was pushed to npm ref: npm show rx-service time and https://www.npmjs.com/package/rx-service still show that 0.0.6 is the latest version

UPDATE:
Tried again with 0.0.8 but on way so just had to push the new version manually after all