## Summary
- Keep package minors in sync (`lerna publish --force-publish` when releasing a new minor)
- Patch on demand (`lerna publish` fixed mode)
- `eslint-config-*` packages are published manually
## Longer Description
1. We used to force publish every package till v3.1, this is due to the unbalanced update frequency among different plugins. In practice, some of them, like the pwa plugin, are quite stable and rarely need updating. So force publishing is overkill now.
2. We have switched to independent mode then, for two major benefits: 1) patching on demand and only on demand 2) eslint config packages needs a more aggressive update strategy in practice, due to the frequent breaking changes in the upstream packages. However, this also causes maintenance burden and confusion to end users. So it's far from ideal.
3. So now we choose to go back fixed versioning. By default lerna would skip untouched packages when publishing a new version. This might be confusing as we think. So to reduce the cognitive load, we still keep each package's minor field in sync.
## Implementation Detail
1. To selectively publish packages, we have to disable `useWorkspaces` in lerna so that these packages can be linked by yarn while being unrecognizable to lerna.
2. Due to an oversight in the old version checking code, version fields in `vue-cli-version-marker` needs to be exact versions, otherwise cli will throw on startup. So we have to publish `vue-cli-version-marker` manually after other package updates. This logic can be removed once all users have been upgrade to 3.2.0+ and we can then add it back to `packages` in `lerna.json`
3. We now use `~/.vuerc` to cache version check results. This also fixes#2956
Now that lerna independent mode is used to release new versions, we can
no longer ensure the core service/plugin versions are in sync with
@vue/cli itself. So `vue-cli-version-marker` is now used to store the
latest version map of core packages.
In order to automate this process, all the core cli packages are listed
as `devDependencies` of `vue-cli-version-marker`. This will cause a
cyclic dependency warning in lerna bootstrap, and that warning can be
safely ignored because these are just `devDependencies` which won't
affect end users.
Another gotcha is that the version of `vue-cli-version-marker` will be
bumped each time we do a release. This may break the remote version
check logic before rc.12 (due to
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/commit/1ae223dfc0a915513a3eff35c9d74fe6b5480224#diff-ac5fc3f8b11df9fc948b8e5aa52a074e
the background version check might never get executed since rc.12)
* feat(generator): allow plugins to modify how configs are extracted
* refactor(cli): change addConfigTransform parameters
Allow plugin author to set config 'descriptions' instead of implementing their own transform functions.
* fix(cli): fix missed issues from changing types from array to set
* fix: use reserved config transforms to check in API
* fix: lines dedupe
* feat(cli): When selecting "separate config files",
cli should create .browserslistrc file
close#1236
* test(cli): add test for extracting .browserslistrc
* feat: Generating README.md based on the package.json
* refactor: Adding missing scripts, changing descriptions and improving code
* chore: Moving stopSpinner to correct position and adding comment
* chore: Changing description to script test:e2e
* refactor: Removing unnecessary `if`
Haoqun Jiang