Create a Customer Release

Prepare, validate, package, inspect, and checksum a clean versioned customer ZIP.

10 min readLicense & SupportUpdated for Nexus 0.1

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What you will learn Prerequisites Prepare the version Build the release Artifact contract Verify delivery

What you will learn

Prepare release metadata.
Create the supported artifact.
Verify excluded and included files.

Prerequisites

Authorization to create a customer package
A clean validated canonical source

Prepare the version

Increment the template version in package.json and describe customer-visible changes in CHANGELOG.md. Do not create a release from an unclear or partially tested state.

Version chosen
Changelog updated
License files current
Environment example safe
No credentials in source

Build the release

The supported command runs the full check before creating a versioned directory and ZIP inside dist.

bash

pnpm release:template

Artifact contract

The package includes editable source, lockfile, documentation, licenses, scripts, tests, and bundled UI CSS. It excludes local dependencies, build cache, demo production environment values, test output, and CDN publishing credentials.

No node_modules
No .next
No .env.production
No test-results
No CDN credential
Bundled Nexus UI CSS present

Verify delivery

Extract the ZIP into a temporary directory, run the documented install flow, and record a SHA-256 checksum for delivery integrity.