How to update version in package.json using calendar versioning

Question

Our intern project use calendar versioning for our angular typescript project managed with npm.

For example the version 2024.02.19.0 is for the first version of 19 february 2024.

However if I run npm version 2024.02.19.0, resulting version does not make any sense:

v2024.2.1-9.0

First of all "19" became "1-9" which does not make any sense. and "02" became "2", which ruins alphabetical order.

How do I update my version without npm messing with my version name.

Note: I could manually edit package.json, which is what we have done until now but we plan on scripting it in our GitlabCI. nmp version also has the courtesy of updating package-lock.json, which is a must.

Answer 1

I solved my problem by not using npm version and instead relying on jq:

VERSION=2024.02.19.0
jq --arg v "$VERSION" '.version = $v' package.json > tmp.json && mv -f tmp.json package.json
jq --arg v "$VERSION" '.version = $v | .packages."".version = $v' package-lock.json > tmp.json && mv -f tmp.json package-lock.json

using a tmp.json buffer file to edit json 'inplace'