ci: unified prod and beta ci configs

Author: JairajJangle

.github/workflows/beta-release.yml

@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+      - beta
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main
+      - beta
+  merge_group:
+    types:
+      - checks_requested
 
 jobs:
   lint:
@@ -68,7 +73,7 @@ jobs:
       issues: write # To comment on released issues
       pull-requests: write # To comment on released pull requests
       id-token: write # To enable use of OIDC for npm provenance
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/beta'
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -82,16 +87,11 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: "lts/*"  # Use the latest LTS version of Node.js
-          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/'  # Specify npm registry
-
-      - name: Verify the integrity of provenance attestations and registry signatures for installed dependencies
-        run: npm audit signatures  # Check the signatures to verify integrity
 
       - name: Release
         run: npx semantic-release  # Run semantic-release to manage versioning and publishing
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}  # GitHub token for authentication
-
-          # Why NODE_AUTH_TOKEN instead of NPM_TOKEN: https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/issues/2313
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}  # npm token for publishing package
+          NPM_CONFIG_PROVENANCE: true
+    
 

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ module.exports = {
       '@semantic-release/npm',
       {
         npmPublish: true,
-        tag: 'beta', // Publishes with a 'beta' tag to npm
       },
     ],
     '@semantic-release/github', // Handles GitHub releases