# 🎯 Complete Publishing Guide

## What You've Built

**Pipecheck** - A production-ready CI/CD pipeline auditor that:
- ✅ Detects circular dependencies in workflows
- ✅ Audits secrets usage
- ✅ Validates Docker images
- ✅ Supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI
- ✅ Outputs text or JSON
- ✅ Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)

**Real-world problem it solves:**
Developers waste hours waiting for CI to fail, then debugging locally. Pipecheck catches errors BEFORE pushing, saving time and CI minutes.

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## 🚀 Quick Start (Test Locally)

```bash
# Run the quickstart script
./quickstart.sh

# Or manually:
cargo build --release
./target/release/pipecheck tests/fixtures/github/circular.yml
```

---

## 📦 Publishing to npm & crates.io

### Step 1: Create GitHub Repository

1. Go to https://github.com/new
2. Name: `pipecheck`
3. Description: "CI/CD Pipeline Auditor - Catch errors before you push"
4. Make it public
5. Don't initialize with README (we have one)

```bash
# In your project directory
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pipecheck.git
git push -u origin main
```

### Step 2: Update Repository URLs

Edit these files and replace `yourusername` with your GitHub username:
- `Cargo.toml` - line 7
- `package.json` - line 18
- `README.md` - badges at top

```bash
# Quick find/replace
sed -i 's/yourusername/YOUR_USERNAME/g' Cargo.toml package.json README.md
```

### Step 3: Create Accounts

**npm account:**
1. Go to https://www.npmjs.com/signup
2. Create account
3. Verify email
4. Go to https://www.npmjs.com/settings/tokens
5. Generate "Automation" token
6. Copy the token

**crates.io account:**
1. Go to https://crates.io
2. Click "Log in with GitHub"
3. Go to https://crates.io/me
4. Generate API token
5. Copy the token

### Step 4: Add Secrets to GitHub

1. Go to your GitHub repo
2. Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions
3. Click "New repository secret"
4. Add these secrets:
   - Name: `NPM_TOKEN`, Value: (paste npm token)
   - Name: `CARGO_TOKEN`, Value: (paste crates.io token)

### Step 5: Publish!

```bash
# Make sure everything is committed
git add .
git commit -m "chore: prepare for release"
git push

# Create and push tag
git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0
```

**That's it!** GitHub Actions will automatically:
1. Build binaries for all platforms
2. Create GitHub release
3. Publish to npm
4. Publish to crates.io

### Step 6: Verify

After ~10 minutes, check:
- https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pipecheck/releases
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/pipecheck
- https://crates.io/crates/pipecheck

---

## 📢 Marketing Your Package

### 1. Update GitHub Repository

Add these topics to your repo (Settings → Topics):
- `rust`
- `ci-cd`
- `github-actions`
- `gitlab-ci`
- `circleci`
- `devops`
- `pipeline`
- `validation`

### 2. Share on Social Media

**Twitter/X:**
```
🚀 Just launched Pipecheck - a blazingly fast CI/CD pipeline auditor!

Stop wasting time on CI failures. Catch circular dependencies, secrets issues, and config errors BEFORE you push.

✅ GitHub Actions
✅ GitLab CI  
✅ CircleCI

npm install -g pipecheck

https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pipecheck
```

**LinkedIn:**
```
I'm excited to share Pipecheck - an open-source tool I built to solve a problem every developer faces: debugging CI failures.

Pipecheck validates your CI/CD pipelines locally, catching errors before you push. It's saved me hours of waiting for CI to fail.

Built with Rust for speed, supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI.

Try it: npm install -g pipecheck

#DevOps #CI #CD #OpenSource #Rust
```

### 3. Post on Reddit

**r/rust:**
Title: "Pipecheck - CI/CD Pipeline Auditor written in Rust"
```
I built a tool to validate CI/CD pipelines locally before pushing. It catches circular dependencies, secrets issues, and Docker problems.

Written in Rust for speed, published to both crates.io and npm.

Would love feedback from the Rust community!

GitHub: https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pipecheck
```

**r/devops:**
Title: "Tool to catch CI/CD errors before pushing"
```
Tired of waiting for CI to fail? I built Pipecheck to validate pipelines locally.

Supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI.

npm install -g pipecheck

Open source and free!
```

### 4. Submit to Lists

- https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust
- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

### 5. Write a Blog Post

Title ideas:
- "How I Built a CI/CD Auditor in Rust"
- "Stop Wasting Time on CI Failures"
- "Validating GitHub Actions Locally"

Post on:
- dev.to
- Medium
- Your personal blog
- Hashnode

---

## 📊 Track Success

**npm downloads:**
https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=pipecheck

**crates.io downloads:**
https://crates.io/crates/pipecheck

**GitHub stars:**
Watch your repo star count grow!

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## 🔄 Future Updates

When you add features:

1. Update version in `Cargo.toml` and `package.json`
2. Update `CHANGELOG.md`
3. Commit and tag:
```bash
git commit -am "feat: add new feature"
git tag v0.2.0
git push origin main --tags
```

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## 💡 Feature Ideas for Future

- Support for Jenkins, Travis CI, Azure Pipelines
- VS Code extension
- GitHub App for PR checks
- Web UI for visualization
- Performance benchmarks
- More auditors (security, performance, cost)

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## ❓ Need Help?

- Check `PUBLISHING_CHECKLIST.md` for detailed steps
- Open an issue on GitHub
- Ask in Rust Discord: https://discord.gg/rust-lang

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## 🎉 Congratulations!

You've built a real tool that solves a real problem. Now get it out there and help developers save time!

Remember: Even if only 10 people use it, you've made their lives better. That's what open source is about. 🚀
