Canary releases (#6143)

* update lerna

Signed-off-by: Marin Petrunic <marin.petrunic@gmail.com>

* add canary release flow

* add type building

Signed-off-by: Marin Petrunic <marin.petrunic@gmail.com>

* add force publish all

Signed-off-by: Marin Petrunic <marin.petrunic@gmail.com>

* add missing publish

Signed-off-by: Marin Petrunic <marin.petrunic@gmail.com>

* shorten ci commands

* add min build

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Signed-off-by: Marin Petrunic <marin.petrunic@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Junaid <86780488+jdevcs@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/canary_release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: 'Release Canary'
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '4.x'
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: 16
+          cache: yarn
+      - run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
+      - run: yarn build:web
+      - run: yarn publish:canary
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Web3.js is a TypeScript implementation of the [Ethereum JSON RPC API](https://et
 
 You can install the package either using [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/web3) or using [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/package/web3)
 
+> If you wanna checkout latest bugfix or feature, use `npm install web3@dev`
+
 ### Using NPM
 
 ```bash

package.json

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@
 		"test:blackbox:infura:ws": "yarn pre-blackbox && ./scripts/verdaccio.sh startBackgroundAndPublish && lerna run test:blackbox:infura:ws --stream && yarn post-blackbox",
 		"prepare": "husky install",
 		"postinstall": "yarn build",
-		"compile:contracts": "node ./scripts/compile_contracts.js && yarn format && yarn lint:fix"
+		"compile:contracts": "node ./scripts/compile_contracts.js && yarn format && yarn lint:fix",
+		"publish:canary": "lerna publish --canary --dist-tag dev --graph-type all --force-publish \"*\" --no-verify-access --yes"
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@cypress/webpack-preprocessor": "^5.12.0",
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@
 		"https-browserify": "^1.0.0",
 		"husky": "^8.0.1",
 		"jest": "^28.1.3",
-		"lerna": "^5.1.8",
+		"lerna": "^6.6.2",
 		"lint-staged": "^13.0.3",
 		"npm-auth-to-token": "^1.0.0",
 		"prettier": "^2.7.1",