Draft ipa package release workflow

Author: Sophia Marie Terry

.github/workflows/ipa-release.yml

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+name: Release IPA Package
+
+on:  
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push: 
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - 'tools/spectral/ipa/package.json'
+
+jobs:
+  check-version:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  
+    
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Repository  
+      uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
+      with:
+          sparse-checkout: |
+            tools/spectral/ipa  
+        
+    - name: Check Version Bump
+      working-directory: tools/spectral/ipa
+      id: version_check
+      run: |
+        current_version=$(jq '.version' package.json)
+        echo "Current version: $current_version"
+
+        previous_version=$(git show origin/${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}:tools/spectral/ipa/package.json | jq -r '.version') 
+  
+        if [[ -z "$previous_version" || "$previous_version" == "null" ]]; then   
+          previous_version="none"  
+        fi 
+        echo "Previous version: $previous_version"
+
+        if [["$previous_version" == "$current_version" ]]; then
+          echo "No version bump to release".
+          exit 0
+        fi 
+  publish:
+    needs: check-version
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    working-directory: tools/spectral/ipa  
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+    
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: '20.x'
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+      - run: npm ci
+      - run: npm publish --access public
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.IPA_VALIDATION_TOKEN }}