Add latest tag in publishToNpm

[dblock]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Coming from opensearch-project/opensearch-js#521, looks like we need to npm-dist-tag as part of publishToNpm.

Describe the solution you'd like

Mark the newly released JS component as latest in npm as part of publishing.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

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[gaiksaya]

Latest is the default behavior AFAIK @dblock. I believe we need an option to "NOT" tag recent release as latest?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opensearch-project/opensearch?activeTab=versions
Looks like 1.2.0 was released few weeks ago where was 2.2.1 being latest was released a month ago?

[bbarani]

@gaiksaya Looks like you can use this command to tag another version as latest

npm dist-tag add <pkg name>@<version> latest

Only caveat is the fact that NPM seems to tag the new version as latest by default so we might need to pass the tags (1.x vs 2.x vs latest)explicitly for every release.

[gaiksaya]

Wondering if it might be a good time to introduce something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68230173/publishing-a-previous-major-version-to-npm-with-no-tag-and-avoiding-latest
We have been doing this for our docker images where v1 represents latest of v1.x series and v2 represents latests version of 2.x series

[wbeckler]

I think this command right here is where we need to make sure this is actually the latest, and if not, then override the false addition of "latest" by using --tag [something_other_than+latest] as per https://docs.npmjs.com/adding-dist-tags-to-packages

[gaiksaya]

Thanks for bringing this into notice. I missed it.

Publishing a package sets the latest tag to the published version unless the --tag option is used. For example, npm publish --tag=beta.
By default, npm install (without any @ or @ specifier) installs the latest tag.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/commands/npm-dist-tag#description
Looks like @dblock already opened the bug report. Will work on it soon.
Thanks!