chore: add commitizen config

README.md

@@ -34,3 +34,20 @@ In general, changes that require a PR (new functionality, new language) should i
 #### Deprecations
 
 We are moving away from using the `tx` cli, so the `.tx/config` file will eventually be deprecated.
+
+## Committing
+
+This project uses [semantic release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) to ensure version bumps
+follow semver so that projects depending on it don't break unexpectedly.
+
+In order to automatically determine version updates, semantic release expects commit messages to follow the
+[conventional-changelog](https://github.com/bcoe/conventional-changelog-standard/blob/master/convention.md)
+specification.
+
+You can use the [commitizen CLI](https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli) to make commits formatted in this way:
+
+```bash
+npm install -g commitizen@latest cz-conventional-changelog@latest
+```
+
+Now you're ready to make commits using `git cz`.

package.json

@@ -86,5 +86,10 @@
     "rimraf": "^2.6.2",
     "webpack": "^4.6.0",
     "webpack-cli": "^3.1.2"
+  },
+  "config": {
+    "commitizen": {
+      "path": "cz-conventional-changelog"
+    }
   }
 }