renovate-config

Ridedott's base config for Renovate[bot].

Getting Started

The project has no runtime and acts as a shareable base config. It can only be used by other projects implementing Renovate[bot].

Prerequisites

Minimal requirements to set up the project:

• Node.js v10, installation instructions can be found on the official website, a recommended installation option is to use Node Version Manager. It can be installed in a few commands.
• A package manager like Yarn or npm. All instructions in the documentation will follow the npm syntax.
• Optionally a Git client.

Installing

Start by cloning the repository:

git clone git@github.com:ridedott/renovate-config.git

In case you don't have a git client, you can get the latest version directly by using this link and extracting the downloaded archive.

Go the the right directory and install dependencies:

cd renovate-config
nvm use
npm install

That's it! You can now go to the next step.

Tests

This repository does not contain any source code, just the configuration, so no tests are present.

Formatting

This project uses Prettier to automate formatting. All supported files are being reformatted in a precommit hook. You can also use one of the two scripts to validate and optionally fix all of the files:

npm run format
npm run format:fix

Publishing

Publishing is handled in an automated way and must not be performed manually.

Each commit to the master branch is automatically deployed to the NPM registry with a version specified in package.json. All other commits are published as pre-releases.

Usage

Add a Renovate configuration to your project and use "extends": ["github>ridedott/renovate-config"] to include the options defined as defaults in the ./default.json configuration:

If you are working in a TypeScript project we recommend using the typescript preset by extending from github>ridedott/renovate-config:typescript instead.

{
  "extends": ["github>ridedott/renovate-config:typescript"],
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "enabled": false,
      "packageNames": ["@types/node"],
      "updateTypes": ["major"]
    }
  ]
}

We use the merge-me github action to auto merge PRs and the hosted renovate bot which runs 24/7 we need to use the schedule configuration to ensure that renovate only runs between the desired hours. Not having this configuration allows renovate bot to rebase PRs outside the specified hours which potentially leads to the CI becoming green and merge-me auto merging the PR. Which led to outages of breaking runtimes that we didn't catch.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Built with

Automation

• Google Cloud Build

Versioning

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning v2.