I was tired of doing releases by hand. Not the deploy part — the ceremony around it. Remembering the right git commands, keeping the changelog consistent, not forgetting to tag before pushing.

So I built VIT . A guided CLI that walks you through each step: bump → changelog → commit → tag → push → deploy. Interactive by default, fully headless when you need it.

npm install -g @ajax-16/vit

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It started with the changelog

Most tools auto-generate changelogs from commits. That's fine, but I wanted to write mine . Decide what goes in, how it's worded, what gets highlighted.

So that's where VIT started — a guided prompt to write changelog entries:

? Change type: feat ? Scope (optional): auth ? Change description: add OAuth2 login ? Is this a breaking change? No ✔ Entry added ? Add another entry? No

## [1.2.0] - 27/04/2026

### 🚀 Features

- *(auth)* add OAuth2 login

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