Automate releases

[eliias]

Publishing this app is manual today, and the repo drifted from what Zapier runs: #99 had to reconstruct 4.10.0 through 4.14.0 out of the published app and back into git.

Bump the minor version and write the changelog entry in the same PR as the code. CI fails the PR when code that reaches Zapier changes without that. Merging uploads that version to Zapier and promotes it, so new Zaps get it. Existing Zaps keep the version they were built on, because nothing migrates them.

flowchart TD
    pr([Pull request]) --> ci
    merge{{Merge to master}} --> ci

    subgraph nodejs[nodejs.yml]
        ci[Test, validate the schema, require a version bump]
    end

    ci -->|on a branch| ready([Ready to merge])
    ready --> merge
    ci -->|on master| ask

    subgraph release[release.yml]
        ask{Is this version at Zapier?}
        stop([Stop])
        upload[Upload]
        promote[Promote and poll]
    end

    ask -->|yes| stop
    ask -->|no| upload
    upload --> promote
    promote --> live([New Zaps get it, existing Zaps keep their version])

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The release workflow asks Zapier which versions it holds rather than inferring from the push, so a release that never arrived is retried on the next push to master, or from the Actions tab. That is also why there is one workflow here and not three.

Check the promote step. It passes --yes, without which the CLI waits on a prompt nobody can answer on a runner, and that flag also accepts Zapier's non-blocking pre-check warnings.

The repo moves to Node 22, because the Zapier CLI that CI installs pulls dependencies that refuse to install below Node 20. Zapier still runs this app on Node 18, and will until we move to core 17.

• Add the ZAPIER_DEPLOY_KEY secret, taken from the shared Zapier account in 1Password, before merging. The release workflow fails on its first run without it.

Towards INF-3414

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INF-3414

[eliias]

@codex review

[delicb]

Looks good overall, left some inline comments.

[eliias]

@delicb I'd like to do a test run this week, do you mind babysitting this with me?

[delicb]

Sorry, I missed this comment. Yes, of course, count on me.