Writing commit messages is like a daily exercise you have to practice as a programmer.
Even if you are writing code for fun, it's important to realize this small detail reflects your developer personality in general.
Writing quality commits is what separates the average developer from the extraordinary one.
Do this! 👇
A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages
The Conventional Commits spec is like a simple guide for your commit messages. It gives you some easy rules to follow for a clear commit history, making it a breeze to build tools on top of.
The commit message should be structured as follows:
you don’t have to memorize this structure…
instead you can use a tool called : Commitizen
Commitizen assumes your team uses a standard way of committing rules and from that foundation, it can bump your project's version, create the changelog, and update files.
By default, Commitizen uses conventional commits, but you can build your own set of rules, and publish them.
for your javascript projects you can use *commmitizen * npm package :
npm i -g commmitizen *NOTE: *
If you're not working in a Commitizen-friendly repository, then git cz will work just the same as git commit, but npx cz will use the streamich/git-cz adapter.
To fix this, you need to first make your repo Commitizen friendly:
to achieve this you have to initialize your project to use the cz-conventional-changelog adapter by typing:
# npm commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --save-dev --save-exact # yarn commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --yarn --dev --exact # pnpm commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --pnpm --save-dev --save-exact After running the command, you’ll see that the Commitizen config is added to the package.json file.
We used AngularJS’s commit message convention, also known as conventional-changelog, but you can use different adapters as well.
You can see a list of them here
you can now use git cz instead of git commit command :
git cz
If you want to go one step further and add some emojis to your messages as well, you can use an adapter called cz-emoji
first you have to install the adapter :
npm i cz-emoji
After installing the package, put the following configuration in the package.json file:
If you run git cz again, you’ll probably see something like this:
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