From Lerna to Changesets

The author describes their journey of evaluating a migration from Lerna to Changesets for release management in their Pedalboard monorepo. While Lerna infers version bumps from conventional commit messages, Changesets requires developers to explicitly declare semver bump intent per PR, reducing the risk of accidental misversioning. The article walks through Lerna's narrowed role (versioning, tagging, npm publishing) and Changesets' initialization and workflow.