docs: setup conventional-changelog (#16)

Co-authored-by: Max Klenk <[email protected]>

README.md

@@ -44,14 +44,18 @@ yarn build
 
 ### Publish
 
-In order to update the package, commit all new changes first. Then follow this command to increas the version
+In order to update the package, commit all new changes first. Then run the following command:
 
 ```bash
-yarn version
+yarn release
 ```
 
+This will 
+* bump the version number according to the types of the last commits (i.e. if it is a major, minor or bug fix release)
+* create a new git tag
+* update the CHANGELOG.md
+
 Next you need to push both, the code and the new version tag:
 ```bash
-git push
-git push --tags
+git push && git push --tags
 ```

package.json

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
     "use:gitReadme": "mv 'README.md' 'npm.README.md' && mv 'git.README.md' 'README.md'",
     "prepublishOnly": "run-s build use:npmReadme && pinst --enable",
     "postpublish": "npm run use:gitReadme && pinst --enable",
-    "prepare": "husky install"
+    "prepare": "husky install",
+    "release": "standard-version"
   },
   "lint-staged": {
     "src/**/*.{ts,tsx}": [
@@ -81,7 +82,8 @@
     "ts-loader": "^9.2.5",
     "typescript": "^4.4.3",
     "webpack": "^5.52.1",
-    "webpack-cli": "^4.8.0"
+    "webpack-cli": "^4.8.0",
+    "standard-version": "^9.3.2"
   },
   "directories": {
     "test": "test"