Beachball vs Changesets
Beachball
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| Figure | Beachball | Changesets |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Monorepo Management Tools | 8.3 (#4) | 7.6 (#21) |
| Publishing | Beachball can publish packages to public or private npm registries and push version and changelog updates to the Git remote. | The CLI can update package versions and changelogs, then publish packages to npm. |
| Purpose | Beachball automates semantic version bumps, changelog generation, and npm publishing for JavaScript packages. | Changesets manages package versions and changelog generation for monorepos and single-package repositories. |
| Security guidance | For token based authentication, the CI guidance recommends minimum necessary permissions and storing tokens as secrets available only to release builds. | The automation guide warns against executing untrusted fork code in pull_request_target workflows and recommends narrowly scoped permissions. |
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Beachball
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Changesets
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