release: componentize-js v0.18.3-rc.1

[jco-release-bot]

This is a release prep branch for componentize-js release v0.18.3-rc.1.

To ensure this release is ready to be merged:

• Review updated CHANGELOG(s)

After this PR is merged tagging, artifact builds and releasing will run automatically.

[vados-cosmonic]

Hey @tschneidereit so one big change here is that the prepack/prepublish script is gone -- this means that if someone tries to make a manual release, they need to remember to do the component build themselves before they run npm publish.

The reason this was necessary is because right now the CI builds the package that's about to be released into an artifact, and npm will run the pack script regardless of the kind of artifact you're releasing, when you run npm publish (so, even if I give it a .tgz to publish it still tries to run the prepublish/prepack scripts which perform a full build). This would have lead to running the build in CI twice (once to build the artifact, then again when trying to actually publish the artifact.

This introduces some room for error when doing manual releases so would appreciate some feedback here -- could certainly be convinced to find another way around this, to keep manual releases as close to foolproof as possible

[tschneidereit]

@vados-cosmonic, hmm, do you think we might be able to do something like set an env var in CI to skip the packaging? Or alternatively do some kind of check for whether an up-to-date package is available when running locally? This otherwise seems like a pretty substantial footgun to me

[vados-cosmonic]

Yeah so one idea is to keep prepack and have it run a script instead (then we can set an ENV var to override) -- that would definitely make things more controllable, at the cost of introducing a small script.

I agree with the footgun there, gave me lots of pause for sure. If you're OK with introducing the small script I'm very happy to do that instead!

[tschneidereit]

Let's do that, then!