Auto vs Beachball
Auto
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| Figure | Auto | Beachball |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Release automation tools | 7.8 (#6) | 8.3 (#2) |
| Spec score · Monorepo Management Tools | 7.7 (#18) | 8.3 (#4) |
| Changelogs | It generates changelogs with pull request links, authors, Jira stories, monorepo awareness, customizable sections, and additional release notes. | Beachball generates changelogs when it bumps package versions. |
| Installation | Auto can be installed as an npm development dependency or downloaded as an executable for major operating systems with Node bundled. | The installation guide shows npm and Yarn commands and says Beachball can also be run with npx. |
| Integrations | The documented plugins include Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages, npm, Homebrew, Docker, and VS Code. | The CI documentation describes using Beachball with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines. |
| License | The Auto repository is distributed under the MIT License. | Beachball is MIT licensed. |
| Purpose | Auto automates project releases and pull request interactions, using pull request labels to calculate releases. | Beachball automates semantic version bumps, changelog generation, and npm publishing for JavaScript packages. |
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