About the Contributor

Type of Contribution

This is a CI / Workflow improvement

Current Behavior

The "nightly" builds of packages on NPM are only built when triggered manually.

New Behavior

The "nightly" builds of packages on NPM will be built each night at 1am and published if their contents have changed.

After building each package we compute a hash of the dist folder. If that has changed since the last release, we update the version to X.Y.Z-nightly-branch-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-githash-disthash and publish.

Each package gets its own 8-character SHA256 dist hash

Testing

It can't really be tested except by trying it.

• I have added one or more unit tests for this PR
• I have updated the relevant unit tests
• No unit test changes are needed for this PR

Affected areas

It will mean there are more releases on NPM.

This will make it much easier to develop blueprints that depend on newly added features. It's designed to work well in cooperation with SuperFlyTV/sofie-demo-blueprints#90, which will apply the output of this to the demo blueprints and ensure they still compile.

Time Frame

• Not urgent, but really useful

Other Information

Status

• PR is ready to be reviewed.
• The functionality has been tested by the author.
• Relevant unit tests has been added / updated.
• Relevant documentation (code comments, system documentation) has been added / updated.