Releasing components

You can use Bit as a build system to release your components, with or without bit.cloud.

Login to bit cloud:

$bit login

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Use tag to sematic version your components.

$bit tag --message "announcing my release"

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By default, Bit uses Ripple CI to build components. You can use the --build flag to build the components on the local machine. To tag and export from your CI of choice to automate the release process or use our official CI scripts.

$bit export

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Your components are now released and available to use as packages. Head to the install components section to learn more on installing components.

Use bit snap to pre-release components:

$bit snap --message "pre-releasing my component"

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You can also create sematic pre-releases using the following command:

$bit tag --message "announcing dev.1 pre-release" --pre-release 1.0.0-dev.1

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If using your own CI, you can use our official scripts for automating the release process for your repostiory and PRs.

Github Actions

Azure Devops

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Circle CI

Bash scripts (Other CIs)

You can use Bit as your repository build system even without leveraging a remote scope. Use the build command locally or from your CI to trigger the build for your components:

$bit build

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To run the deployment pipeline use the --include-tag flag. You can also host your own Bit scope for having a remote server for your components.

• Creating change requests
• Deploy apps
• Versioning changes