Follow these steps to ensure a smooth and consistent release process.

Release

We currently use changesets for tracking changes, generating changelogs, and publishing releases.

We don't use changesets prerelease mode yet as we want to avoid additonal steps when creating a new release.

1. Update Main with changes from next

Make a PR from next into main branch
Merge PR into main using a merge commit

2. Publish new package version

Changeset bot should now pickup the changesets (inside .changeset/) and generate a PR with bumped version and changelog.
Approve and merge the PR.
Changeset bot will now publish new a package version to npmjs and create github releases
Verify that new version is available in npmjs (under latest tag) and on github releases

3. Deploy new application version to production

Manually trigger the github action deployment to production environment from main branch:
- Deploy Storefront
- Deploy Theme
- Deploy Storybook

4. Update next branch with changes from main

Make a PR from main into next branch
Merge PR into next using a merge commit

Next

Use Release Snapshot to publish new version for testing on @next before releasing to production