Setup CI for nightly CLI releases after every commit to the `master` branch

[hrueger]

I suggest the following:

• Github Action workflow which runs on pushes to the master branch (or better add the following steps to the already exisiting build workflow)
• Append -nightly-[time] to the package.json's version field. [time] is the current timestamp.
• build and push the version to npm with the --tag nightly

You can then get the latest version with npm I tallyarbiter@nightly.

This makes sense for the CLI and the Docker Image but what about the Desktop Versions? If we want to have nightly versions for those, too, we'd need to create a GH pre-release every time in order to host the assets. I don't know if that makes sense or not.

Originally posted by @hrueger in https://github.com/josephdadams/TallyArbiter/issues/125#issuecomment-888610616

[MatteoGheza]

I'm working on an e2e testing system running in Github Actions with Cypress. ASAP I'll open a draft PR.

[josephdadams]

I could see end users on electron wanting “the latest”. I’m also ok with just releasing new public releases more often since it is so simple to do.

[JTF4]

What would it take to have 2 streams for people? People who are ok running the nightly builds and updating as soon as possible, and people who want more stability so they keep to the major updates.

[josephdadams]

What we are doing now + the nightlies. We just limit our release tags to what we consider stable.

[JTF4]

Yea. But what I'm wondering is if we can offer a automatic upgrade path for people who are ok with nightly builds and just clicking upgrade when they want rather than wait for a major release.

Or, are we planning on doing major releases often enough that it really shouldn't matter?

OR, am I completely miss understanding this whole thing (as you know, I have never used GitHub actions) 😊

[josephdadams]

I’m saying we can do non beta releases as often as we want. So it should keep everyone happy.

[JTF4]

Ahhhhhh

[hrueger]

I'd prefer @josephdadams way to just do "normal" releases more often. As far as I know, it is quite a lot of work to setup a beta release channel and I don't know if that is possible with the GitHub Releases provider for electron-builder.