Nx dynamic release

[fennet82]

Hey how’s everybody doin hope your having a wonderful day.

I have some questions about the nx release

I’m using nx 21.5.2
And in our org we are using gitlab ci (gitlab version is 16.11.10-ee)

now I’m running to a problem with the nx release maybe I didn’t understand the nx release methodology but I’m trying to achieve a release process that I have quite a problem writing with nx release out of the box capabilities

While I read the docs and tried to figure out if there is a “clean” way to achieve what I’m trying to do I didn’t find one
In one hand if I do each project independently I have a lot of tags which is “polluting” our repo
On the other hand if they’re fixed I’m running build and docker targets for projects who are not even affected which is redundant work

Our monorepo is fully ts based project with docker targets, and all the libs aren’t ment to be published

now the behavior I’m trying to achieve is:

1. Bump each project version along with the workspace version based on disk and conventional commits and then commit them with custom commit msg (without creating git tag for each project)
2. create a tag based on the workspace version and generate a workspace changelog (without committing it), while also creating a release with the changelog associated to the tag
3. docker build each project and the tag would be the new version in their package.json

Again it’s very possible that I didn’t understand or didn’t fully dig down as I’m still pretty new to nx

but I’ll be happy to hear some solutions

thank you 🙏

[Coly010]

This should be achievable via the Nx Release Programmatic API: https://nx.dev/docs/guides/nx-release/programmatic-api

Perhaps I can try write a guide/blog post on this, or convince someone else to

[fennet82]

It’ll be awesome if you could 🙌🏻
thanks for answering