Add some way to create release from the version in a package.json

[heff]

Right now there's no way to just read the package.json file and use what's in there. Coudl provide some way to say: chg release package.json, or something like it.

[Hypercubed]

Yes, would ne nice if you could just do npm version [major|minor|patch] and have chg update CHANGELOG as expected. Are you still working on this?

[mmcc]

We haven't done any work towards this specifically since we didn't go this route for Video.js. I still think this is really relevant, though, so any interest in putting together a PR for this?

[Hypercubed]

I added a -y flag to the release command, since chg release already reads package.json when no version is given.

By "we didn't go this route" does that mean you used something else for Video.js?

[mmcc]

Nah, I just meant we handled it differently with VJS, but we're still using chg.

[gkatsev]

I'm not sure that it's possible to automatically bind into npm version but npm's scripts allow you to add pre and post version scripts. So, you could add chg into a postversion step to have it be done automatically. Or maybe even preversion.

[Hypercubed]

preversion is before the version number is bumped in package.json. version is after the bump. See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/version .