---
name: "npm-version"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "npm"
version: "1.4.21+ds-2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/npm-version/3"
---

# npm-version(3)

Bump a package version

## NAME

**npm-version** - Bump a package version

## SYNOPSIS

```
npm.commands.version(newversion, callback)
```

## DESCRIPTION

Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to the package.json file.

If run in a git repo, it will also create a version commit and tag, and fail if the repo is not clean.

Like all other commands, this function takes a string array as its first parameter. The difference, however, is this function will fail if it does not have exactly one element. The only element should be a version number.