feat: Conditionally publish prerelease NPM packages using extracted tags and set package version to a prerelease.

Author: muhammedaksam

.github/workflows/publish-trusted.yml

@@ -42,5 +42,17 @@ jobs:
           ls -la dist/
 
       # Publish using OIDC authentication (no NPM_TOKEN needed)
+      # Prereleases are published with extracted tag (e.g., v1.0.0-dev.1 → --tag dev)
       - name: Publish to npm
-        run: npm publish --access public --no-git-checks
+        run: |
+          VERSION="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}"
+          if [[ "$VERSION" == *"-"* ]]; then
+            # Extract tag name: 1.0.0-dev.1 → dev, 1.0.0-beta.2 → beta
+            PRERELEASE="${VERSION#*-}"  # dev.1 or beta.2
+            TAG="${PRERELEASE%%.*}"      # dev or beta
+            echo "Publishing prerelease version $VERSION with --tag $TAG"
+            npm publish --access public --no-git-checks --tag "$TAG"
+          else
+            echo "Publishing stable version $VERSION"
+            npm publish --access public --no-git-checks
+          fi

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@muhammedaksam/waha-node",
-  "version": "2025.12.2",
+  "version": "2025.12.2-dev.1",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Node.js TypeScript SDK for WAHA (WhatsApp HTTP API) - auto-generated from OpenAPI spec",
   "main": "dist/index.cjs.js",