devops: publish devrelease:npm to beta on release branches (#9949)

Co-authored-by: Andrey Lushnikov <aslushnikov@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/publish_canary_npm.yml

@@ -23,11 +23,18 @@ jobs:
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps
-    - run: node utils/build/update_canary_version.js --today-date
+    - name: Publish to NPM (@next)
       if: contains(github.ref, 'master') && github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
-    - run: node utils/build/update_canary_version.js --commit-timestamp
+      run: |
+        node utils/build/update_canary_version.js --today-date
+        utils/publish_all_packages.sh --tip-of-tree
+      env:
+        NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+    - name: Publish to NPM (@beta)
       if: contains(github.ref, 'release') || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
-    - run: utils/publish_all_packages.sh --tip-of-tree
+      run: |
+        node utils/build/update_canary_version.js --commit-timestamp
+        utils/publish_all_packages.sh --beta
       env:
         NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
 

utils/publish_all_packages.sh

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ if [[ $1 == "--help" ]]; then
   echo
   echo "--release                publish @latest version of all packages"
   echo "--tip-of-tree            publish @next version of all packages"
+  echo "--beta                   publish @beta version of all packages"
   exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -71,6 +72,14 @@ elif [[ $1 == "--tip-of-tree" ]]; then
     exit 0
   fi
   NPM_PUBLISH_TAG="next"
+elif [[ $1 == "--beta" ]]; then
+  # Ensure package version contains dash.
+  if [[ "${VERSION}" != *-* ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: cannot publish release version with --beta flag"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+  NPM_PUBLISH_TAG="beta"
 else
   echo "unknown argument - '$1'"
   exit 1