Publishes your Storybook to Chromatic and kicks off tests if they're enabled.

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Compatibility is guaranteed between this package and Chromatic like so:

• Production Chromatic ensures it’s compatible with what’s on npm
• What's on the main branch is equal to what's published on npm
• This package ensures it’s compatible with production Chromatic

To facilitate upgrading in the future, removing and adding features, this is the process:

• Any new features will have to be on Chromatic production before they could be used in this package
• We can add feature flags to be able to test new functionality
• Chromatic production can not remove any features this package depends on until after the usage has been removed from this package in addition to a grace period to allow users to upgrade

Before publishing, make sure you've done the following:

• yarn build
• Updated CHANGELOG.md
• Committed and pushed everything
• Decide on the proper semver bump (major/minor/patch)

We have two types of pre-releases: canary and next. canary releases are intended for development purposes and should not be used in production, as they may only work against a staging or dev environment. next releases should be valid, working releases that can potentially be used by early adopters of new features, for example to handle a support request.

As a consumer, you should not specify a tag (e.g. chromatic@next) in your package dependencies, but rather a specific version number (e.g. [email protected]). Otherwise you'll end up with a broken build when we remove or update the tag.

For the first canary (or next) release, bump the version like so (depending on the semver bump):

npm version <premajor|preminor|prepatch> --preid canary

For consecutive canary releases on the same version:

npm version prerelease --preid=canary

Then push and publish:

git push --follow-tags
npm publish --tag canary

Make sure to replace canary with next if appropriate.

A final release is automatically tagged latest by npm.

npm version <major|minor|patch>
git push --follow-tags
npm publish

And finally, remove the canary and/or next tag, if any:

npm dist-tag rm chromatic canary

This ensures we can safely do a new canary or next release later, without anyone getting an unexpected update.