feat: add release-it

[freeboub]

Integrate release-it tool for new release management

Next version can be generated with:
npx release-it --preRelease=alpha

should address: #3333

[evoactivity]

I've been thinking about adding changesets here, it works a lot better for community projects as you don't have to enforce every PR to follow conventional commits, it makes keeping a changelog very simple as peoples changesets get added automatically. It can be completely automated through github actions so anyone with merge access on the repo will be able to make a release. Releases can goto github and npm.

https://github.com/changesets/changesets

I have a repo using automated changesets here if you would like to see how I have it setup
https://github.com/ektotv/playlist

[KrzysztofMoch]

@evoactivity Thanks for your feedback!
But I think that for us it will be much easier to use release-it with changelog plugin. To enforce that every PR follow conventional commits we can use github action. We (I and @freeboub) have already used release-it so it will be easier for us to configurate and use it

[KrzysztofMoch]

we need update package.json to exclude docs and examples and we are ready to go

[freeboub]

we need update package.json to exclude docs and examples and we are ready to go

I added, but I think this is not mandatory, all the !XXX are subfolders of included folders.

[freeboub]

I've been thinking about adding changesets here, it works a lot better for community projects as you don't have to enforce every PR to follow conventional commits, it makes keeping a changelog very simple as peoples changesets get added automatically. It can be completely automated through github actions so anyone with merge access on the repo will be able to make a release. Releases can goto github and npm.

https://github.com/changesets/changesets

I have a repo using automated changesets here if you would like to see how I have it setup https://github.com/ektotv/playlist

Thank you for the clue, I agree it would be interesting to have github integration, but I had this release-it integration under the hand, it was very easy.

[KrzysztofMoch]

LGTM 👍