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+# Maintainers
+
+This doc describes how to prep a release and publish to GitHub and `npm`.
+
+## Prep the Release
+
+Run the following command, where `<version>` is the version you wish to update the package to:
+
+```sh
+npm run bump -- <version>
+```
+
+This command will automatically bump the version in the `package.json` and the `package-lock.json` files, as well as add the corresponding tags.
+
+## Publishing to GitHub :octopus:
+
+The next step is to push these changes to GitHub:
+
+```sh
+git push # pushes the code
+git push --tags # pushes the tags
+```
+
+## Publishing to `npm` :rocket:
+
+Finally, publish the changes to `npm`. If you're publishing to the default [distribution tag](https://docs.npmjs.com/adding-dist-tags-to-packages) (i.e. `latest`), you can run the following:
+
+```sh
+npm publish
+```
+
+If you're publishing to another [distribution tag](https://docs.npmjs.com/adding-dist-tags-to-packages) for prelease purposes or otherwise (e.g., `alpha`, `beta`, `next`, etc.), include the tag like so:
+
+```sh
+npm publish --tag <tag>
+```