[RN][GHA] Remove the trigger-react-native-release to use the GHA work…

…flow_dispatch UI

.github/actions/prepare_release/action.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ runs:
     - name: Yarn install
       shell: bash
       run: yarn install --non-interactive
+    - name: Validate version
+      shell: bash
+      run: node ./scripts/releases/validate-version.js --build-type release --version "${{ inputs.version }}"
     - name: Versioning workspace packages
       shell: bash
       run: |
@@ -17,7 +20,14 @@ runs:
     - name: Creating release commit
       shell: bash
       run: |
-        git commit -a -m "Release ${{ inputs.version }}" -m "#publish-packages-to-npm&${{ inputs.tag }}"
+        BRANCH="$(git branch --show-current)"
+        NPM_TAG="$(node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js --version ${{ inputs.version }} --branch $BRANCH)"
+
+        if [[ "${{ inputs.is-latest-on-npm }}" ]]; then
+          NPM_TAG="$(node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js --is_latest_on_npm --version ${{ inputs.version }} --branch $BRANCH)"
+        fi
+
+        git commit -a -m "Release ${{ inputs.version }}" -m "#publish-packages-to-npm&$NPM_TAG"
         git tag -a "v${{ inputs.version }}" -m "v${{ inputs.version }}"
         GIT_PAGER=cat git show HEAD
     - name: Update "latest" tag if needed

.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ on:
         description: 'The version of React Native we want to release'
         required: true
         type: string
-      tag:
-        description: 'The tag name that will be associated with the published npm packages. A tag of "latest" will also be written as a Git tag.'
+      is-latest-on-npm:
+        description: 'Whether we want to tag this release as latest on NPM'
         required: true
-        type: string
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
       dry_run:
         description: 'Whether the job should be executed in dry-run mode or not'
         type: boolean
@@ -33,6 +34,15 @@ jobs:
           fi
       - name: Print output
         run: echo "ON_STABLE_BRANCH ${{steps.check_stable_branch.outputs.ON_STABLE_BRANCH}}"
+      - name: Check if tag already exists
+        id: check_if_tag_exists
+        run: |
+          TAG="v${{ inputs.version }}"
+          TAG_EXISTS=$(git tag -l "$TAG")
+          if [[ -n "$TAG_EXISTS" ]]; then
+            echo "Version tag already exists!"
+            echo "TAG_EXISTS=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
       - name: Execute Prepare Release
-        if: ${{ steps.check_stable_branch.outputs.ON_STABLE_BRANCH }}
+        if: ${{ steps.check_stable_branch.outputs.ON_STABLE_BRANCH && !steps.check_if_tag_exists.outputs.TAG_EXISTS }}
         uses: ./.github/actions/prepare_release

scripts/releases/README.md

@@ -21,3 +21,12 @@ Updates relevant files in the `react-native` package and template to materialize
 ### `update-template-package`
 
 Updates workspace dependencies in the template app`package.json`
+
+### `validate-version`
+
+Takes a version and a build type and validates whether the version passed is valid for the given build type
+It is intended to use in CI
+
+### `compute-npm-tag`
+
+Takes a version, a branch and whether we want to explicitly tag the release as "latest" and outputs the most appropriate NPM tag for the release.

scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @flow
+ * @format
+ * @oncall react_native
+ */
+
+const {parseVersion} = require('./utils/version-utils');
+const {parseArgs} = require('@pkgjs/parseargs');
+
+const config = {
+  options: {
+    is_latest_on_npm: {
+      type: 'boolean',
+      short: 'l',
+      default: false,
+    },
+    version: {
+      type: 'string',
+      short: 'v',
+    },
+    branch: {
+      type: 'string',
+      short: 'b',
+    },
+    help: {type: 'boolean'},
+  },
+};
+
+async function main() {
+  const {
+    values: {help, is_latest_on_npm: latest, version: version, branch: branch},
+  } = parseArgs(config);
+
+  if (help) {
+    console.log(`
+        Usage: node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js [OPTIONS]
+
+        Validates a version string for a given build type.
+
+        Options:
+        --is-latest-on-npm    Whether we need to publish this as latest on NPM or not. Defaults to false.
+        --version             The new version string.
+        --branch              The branch name.
+        `);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const {prerelease} = parseVersion(version, 'release');
+
+  const npmTag = latest ? 'latest' : !prerelease ? branch : 'next';
+
+  console.log(npmTag);
+  return;
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-void
+  void main();
+}