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Today, I cut the first release (v1.0.0) and published diff-check to GitHub Marketplace.

diff-check came out of seeing a common pattern of seeing side effects when another automated process would run, creating more work which wouldn’t be seen at the time. It was really common when I was working on React Native projects (if you upgrade an npm dependency, you’ll often get a change in the Podfile.lock that Dependabot wouldn’t know about), but less frequently in projects using Appraisal (another project I maintain). I previously wrote up how it works in the announcement blog post.

With some help from Oscar Gustafsson (thank you!), he helped see some bits I’d got wrong and also pointed out some small ways in which we could improve the output too. Several weeks ago, I’d also merged in a PR to use this on Administrate and so now I’m pretty happy it’s working.

I’d love to hear if it works out for you!