Series 2 of 2 — Part 4 of 4

Building DevFeed — Part 4: Shipping v1.0.1 with GitHub Actions and a Changelog

Series: Building DevFeed — A Proper Flutter MVVM App from Day One

DevFeed started as a practice project. At some point during development it stopped feeling like practice and started feeling like a real app. That shift happened when I set up the GitHub Actions release workflow and wrote the first changelog entry.

Treating a learning project like a real product — versioning it, writing release notes, automating the build — changes how you think about it.

Why bother with releases for a practice project

The low-stakes answer : Setting up a release workflow on a practice project is good practice for doing it on a real project. You make mistakes when there are no consequences.

The portfolio answer : A versioned changelog shows you think about the full software development lifecycle, not just writing features.…