chore: cleanup standard-version and update the scripts to semantic-release

Author: josdejong

.github/workflows/automated-release.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-name: Continuous integration (release)
+name: Automated release
 on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+
 jobs:
   automated-releases:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -15,21 +16,11 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
           cache-dependency-path: 'package-lock.json'
       - run: npm ci
-      - run: npm run release:lint
-      - run: npm run release:check
-      - run: npm run release:test
-      - run: npm run release:build
-      - name: Run semantic-release
+      - run: npm run release
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
-        run: >
-          npx
-          -p "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
-          -p "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
-          -p conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
-          -p semantic-release
-          -- semantic-release
+
 permissions:
   # packages: write # This is for pushing it to githubs package repository
   contents: write

README.md

@@ -1188,10 +1188,12 @@ npm run lint            # Run linter
 npm run format          # Automatically fix linting issues
 
 npm run release-dry-run # To run the build and see the change list without actually publishing
-npm run release         # Publish to npm (requires login). This will test, check, lint, build,
-                        # increase the version number, update the changelog, and publish to npm.
-                        # Note that it will publish two npm packages: `svelte-jsoneditor`
-                        # and `vanilla-jsoneditor`.
+npm run release         # Publish the npm packages `svelte-jsoneditor` and `vanilla-jsoneditor`.
+                        # This will test, check, lint, build, create a version tag and publish
+                        # to npm and GitHub releases. This script runs automatically via the GitHub
+                        # Actions workflow "Automated release" after a push to the `main` branch.
+                        # note that the script requires environment variables NPM_TOKEN and
+                        # GITHUB_TOKEN.
 ```
 
 ## License