diff --git a/playbooks/javascript/release.yaml b/playbooks/javascript/release.yaml
index 9ac8f32d27..156f6a737d 100644
--- a/playbooks/javascript/release.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/javascript/release.yaml
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
-- hosts: ubuntu-xenial
+- hosts: all
   roles:
     - fetch-javascript-output
     - version-from-git
     - fetch-javascript-tarball
 
-- hosts: localhost
-  roles:
+- hosts: all
+  tasks:
     # project_ver is set by set_fact in version-from-git, but that runs on
     # the remote host, which puts the fact into the hostvars of that host.
     # Now that we're running on localhost, we need to reach in to the remote
     # hosts vars to get the value.
-    - role: upload-npm
-      project_ver: "{{ hostvars['ubuntu-xenial']['project_ver'] }}"
+    - name: Upload to npm
+      include_role:
+        name: upload-npm
+      delegate_to: localhost