[FEATURE] Function to check for validity of a prerelease identifier

[boxcee]

What / Why

Problem described in #349: An 'invalid' identifier will lead to an invalid semver.
Now, there is no way to check beforehand whether an identifier is valid, except doing this:

const isValidIdentifier(identifier) => !!valid(inc(parse('0.0.1'), 'prerelease', identifier));

This is a request for a more straight-forward function, e.g. identifier(), which returns null (or false) if the identifier is invalid.

References

• Related to [BUG] inc() may produce invalid semver with ReleaseType: prerelease #349

[mbtools]

#754 adds a check to inc. Do we need a new function when you can just look up the spec to see what's valid for a pre-release?

Or get the regex for it from semver:

semver.src[semver.tokens.PRERELEASE]
semver.src[semver.tokens.PRERELEASEIDENTIFIER]