# Easily bump your packages versions

This is a quick article about configuring a simple yet effective way to manage your scripts. Let's say you are using esbuild, your probably have some kind of `build` command.

Recently, I added a `bump` command to make my life easier. The `package.json` looks something like this

```
  ...
  "scripts": {
    "build": "esbuild --bundle --minify --format=esm --sourcemap mylib.js --outfile=mylib.min.js",
    "start": "npm run build -- --servedir=.",
    "watch": "npm run build -- --watch",
    "bump": "npm run build && npm version patch"
  },
  ...
``` 

So now, it's simple as running this when I want to push some updates

```
npm run bump
npm publish
git push
``` 

You can either push the tag or use the GitHub release tool.

## Quick warning about the "v" prefix

By default, npm version will add the "v" prefix to the version. Maybe you don't like that. Simply create a `.npmrc` with the following line:

```
tag-version-prefix=""
```

What if you didn't noticed the prefix so far ? You can remove them easily

```
git tag -d $(git tag -l "v*")
```