I maintain a NPM package and so far I have always created a new version of the package every time I made a change to the package files. For this i followed the following guide from the NPM Docs:

https://docs.npmjs.com/updating-your-published-package-version-number

Now my question is if it is possible to update the package files without raising the version number of the package? And if so, which command should I use to do that. The described npm publish command only works if I first incremented the version number.

Reason for my consideration is the statement from the docs "When you make significant changes to a published package". Because I don't want to increase the version number with every small update.