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Every commit pushed to a branch here now produces an installable tarball,
without publishing anything to npm:

npm i https://pkg.pr.new/datocms/vue-datocms@<commit-sha>

Why

Every consumer of this package lives in another repository — the Nuxt starter
kit, the demos, customer sites. Judging a rendering change means running it in
one of them, which today costs a release or npm link. Now it's a URL that
expires on its own, and a fix can be handed to whoever reported it before we
release.

This is one of ten repos getting the same workflow; the four monorepos are in
datocms/js-rest-api-clients#58 and its siblings.

Verified on this branch

The run on 64440a2 published the package, and the exact URL documented in the
README installs into a throwaway project.

The README's table of contents is hand-maintained here (npm run toc only
covers src/), so the new heading is listed by hand.

Also in this PR: git://git+https://

repository.url still used git://, which GitHub stopped serving in 2022, so
the field was stale regardless. It also happens to be what pkg.pr.new reads to
decide whether it can mint the short URL form — but it reads the npm
registry
, not this repo, so the short form only starts working one release
from now. Until then the long URL above is the one to use, and it keeps working
afterwards either way.

Choices worth reviewing

Pushes only, no fork pull requests. The workflow runs on pushes to branches
of this repo, which only people with write access can make. This is deliberate:
pkg.pr.new URLs carry our namespace and the tarballs are served
unauthenticated, so an unreviewed fork should not be able to mint one.
pkg.pr.new documents an "approved pull requests only" recipe if we want fork
previews later.

Node pinned at 22, not the matrix node.js.yml runs. This job only has to
build a tarball, not prove which Node versions the package supports.

One thing to know

Previews are throwaway and the URLs stop resolving after a while. They must
never end up in a package.json that ships.

Every commit pushed to a branch now produces an installable tarball, so
a rendering change can be tried in a real Nuxt site without a release:

    npm i https://pkg.pr.new/datocms/vue-datocms@<commit-sha>

Nothing reaches npm, no version is spent, and there is nothing to clean
up afterwards. This replaces `npm link` and pinning a git branch by hand,
and it means a fix can be handed to whoever reported it before we cut a
release.

Runs only on pushes to branches of this repo, so a fork cannot mint a URL
under our namespace without a maintainer pushing the code first.

Also replaces the `git://` in `repository.url` with `git+https://`. GitHub
stopped serving `git://` in 2022, so the field was stale either way; it is
also what pkg.pr.new reads — from the npm registry, not from here — to
decide whether it can mint the shorter URL form. So the short form starts
working one release from now, and until then the URL above is the one to
use.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TbxhxyU1XBsSKtoCJXwAoD
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