Bump algorithm

Bumping a single package is a simple task of just looking up a change file for its change type and using semver to bump the version according to what that change type is.

Things get a bit more complicated when we introduce the concepts of version groups and dependent package bumping. For the sake of describing this algorithm, we can take a look at the following graph:

Dependent version bumping

In the above example, the app package is dependent on fooLib. Let's assume that the developer has created a minor change inside fooLib. By default, beachball will also bump app with a patch change type, like this:

To modify what the dependent package bumped change type would be (e.g. making app also bump with minor in the above example), you have to modify the change file to specify this. Here's an example of a change file under /changes:

{
  "comment": "Upgrading fooLib",
  "type": "patch",
  "packageName": "fooLib",
  "email": "me@me.me",
  "commit": "b785112c03f063b71d936ff052470817019267d4",
  "date": "2019-06-20T22:54:59.172Z",
+ "dependentChangeType": "minor"
}

Grouped bumping

In the above example, fooUtils, styleUtils, dateUtils all belong to a utils group. Whenever one of those packages get bumped, the entire group would get bumped by the same change type. We can illustrate it like so:

NOTE: the group get bumped together even if it is part of a dependent package bump. In other words, package bumps propagate their changes via dependent package bumps as well as group package bumps.