[Question] Is there a way to create a GitHub release without publishing the package to registry?

[miszo]

Problem

I have a monorepo powered by Turborepo and I wanted to automate applications deployment. I wanted to trigger docker build for the app whenever the GitHub release for the app is created (e.g., webapp@1.0.1). Not only that, but I want to avoid publishing anything to the NPM. Is there a way to do so and having a nice generated changelog at the same time?

I mean something similar to lerna publish, but you know – without lerna :)

[Andarist]

I think this would require:

1. marking your apps with private: true
2. allowing private packages to be tagged
3. allowing releases to include private packages

IIRC 2 is being implemented here and this is an obvious blocker for 3. 3 would also have to be configured at the Changesets Action level and not in Changesets themselves.

I think that overall this is a good thing to have - so if you could take a look at the linked PR, review it from your PoV and comment there then we could resume working on that PR and land it soon-ish. Then we could think about implementing the config part for the Changesets Action.

[ghost]

I'm having this issue too.

[Trugamr]

npx changeset tag can be used to generate git tags without publishing.