diff --git a/grunt/browser_clients.js b/grunt/browser_clients.js
index c8e01a9b3..b42786778 100644
--- a/grunt/browser_clients.js
+++ b/grunt/browser_clients.js
@@ -21,22 +21,24 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
   });
 
   grunt.registerTask('browser_clients:distribute', [
+    'browser_clients:build',
     '_upload_archive:master'
   ]);
 
   grunt.registerTask('browser_clients:release', [
     'prompt:confirm_release',
     '_check_for_confirmation',
-    '_upload_archive:release',
     'browser_clients:build',
+    '_upload_archive:release',
     'run:clone_bower_repo',
     'copy:dist_to_bower',
     'run:release_bower_tag'
   ]);
 
   grunt.registerTask('_upload_archive', function (type) {
+    this.requires(['browser_clients:build']);
+
     grunt.task.run([
-      'browser_clients:build',
       'copy:dist_to_named_dir',
       'compress:' + type + '_zip',
       'compress:' + type + '_tarball',
diff --git a/scripts/release/bower.js b/scripts/release/bower.js
index 652f4cf00..50f9f2c98 100644
--- a/scripts/release/bower.js
+++ b/scripts/release/bower.js
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ async.series([
   make('git', ['commit', '-m', 'version ' + bowerJson.version]),
   make('git', ['tag', '-a', 'v' + bowerJson.version, '-m', 'version ' + bowerJson.version]),
   make('git', ['push', 'origin', 'master']),
-  make('git', ['push', '--tags', 'origin'])
+  make('git', ['push', '--tags', 'origin']),
+  make('npm', ['publish'])
 ], function (err) {
   if (err) {
     if (_.isNumber(err)) {