A little script to publish a "semantic" version of any npm package that uses real version numbers.

npm-publish-semver.coffee

#!/usr/bin/env coffee

fs = require 'fs'
sh = require 'execSync'

config = JSON.parse fs.readFileSync 'package.json'

fs.renameSync 'package.json', 'package.json.real'

name = config.name = "#{config.name}-semver"

version = config.version = config.version.replace(/\./g, '') + '.0.0'

fs.writeFileSync 'package.json', JSON.stringify config, null, 2

sh.run 'npm publish .'

sh.run "npm tag #{name}@#{version} stable"

fs.unlinkSync 'package.json'

fs.renameSync 'package.json.real', 'package.json'

May want to move the fs operations closer together (as here: https://gist.github.com/asyncanup/efdc57d85ee233df5579 )

And throw in a try/catch for the case when npm publish fails?

@kballenegger no. Should be LPAD. Otherwise, 1.10.0 and 1.1.0 are the same.