Dev Tips: Automating Publish a Dart Package

Posted by nepaul on 2022-12-14
#flutter

Four steps to publish a package

  1. Prepare an account that can publish the package (recommended use a verified account - 🔗Advantages of using a verified publisher)

  2. A package that meets the criteria for release.(eg. 🔗svg_to_font ).
    You can run dart pub publish --dry-run under the package’s Root path to verify it before publishing and fix the result accordingly.

  3. dart pub publish： The first publish is done interactively on the command line and is mainly used to verify that the user and it will generate the corresponding tokens.

    Click to show details 👉

  4. Transfer packages that have not been sent to pub.dev from your account to an authenticated account (Details 👉🔗 Publishing packages | Dart).

    Click to show svg_to_font 👉

🎉 At this point, you have completed the entire process of manually publishing a package.

Automated publishing via GitHub Actions

Mainly using Dart and Flutter Package Publisher

  1. Add a new file, .github/workflows/publish.yml to the root directory

  2. File content reference svg_to_font

  3. Get PUB_ACCESS_TOKEN and PUB_REFRESH_TOKEN
    According to Dart and Flutter Package Publisher, it is likely that you will not get them.

    Click to show Dart and Flutter Package Publisher Doc 👉

    Check the source code of dart cli， for example, macOS, the correct address is ~/Library/Application Support/dart/pub-credentials.json

  4. Configure GitHub Actions secrets （Address： https://github.com/<REPLACE Your Repo>/settings/secrets/actions）

  5. Take this article’s repository as an example, and type a tag that starts with the letter “v” and it will automatically publish

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