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feat: promote npm edge tag to latest when prerelease is promoted #71

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25 changes: 24 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/release.yml
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release:
types:
- published

- released
jobs:
# When a prerelease is promoted to a full release, update the npm latest tag
promote:
if: github.event.action == 'released'
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v6
- name: Install node 20
uses: actions/setup-node@v6
with:
node-version: '20'
registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org
- name: Promote edge to latest
run: |
VERSION=$(echo "$TAG_NAME" | sed 's/^v//')
PACKAGE=$(node -p "require('./package.json').name")
npm dist-tag add "$PACKAGE@$VERSION" latest
echo "::notice title=Promoted $VERSION to latest::The latest tag now points to $VERSION (was edge-only)"
env:
TAG_NAME: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_DEPLOY_TOKEN}}

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Promote job fails on fresh non-prerelease publish

Medium Severity

When a non-prerelease is published directly, GitHub fires both published and released events simultaneously as two separate workflow runs. The promote job (~15 seconds) will almost always finish before the deploy job (install, lint, test, publish — several minutes), causing npm dist-tag add to fail because the version hasn't been published to the registry yet. The PR description claims this is "idempotent" and "harmless," but dist-tag add on a non-existent version is an error, not a no-op — it will produce a consistently failing red workflow run for every fresh non-prerelease publish.

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deploy:
if: github.event.action == 'published'
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
env:
TERM: xterm
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