diff --git a/services/real-time/.gitignore b/services/real-time/.gitignore
index 50678c09e9..80bac793a7 100644
--- a/services/real-time/.gitignore
+++ b/services/real-time/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 node_modules
 forever
+
+# managed by dev-environment$ bin/update_build_scripts
+.npmrc
diff --git a/services/real-time/.npmrc b/services/real-time/.npmrc
deleted file mode 100644
index 34ecfacbc4..0000000000
--- a/services/real-time/.npmrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# block local, outside docker invocations of $ npm install
-dry-run=true
diff --git a/services/real-time/buildscript.txt b/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
index 742bdcd841..c4e9ac7c8d 100644
--- a/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
+++ b/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ real-time
 --env-pass-through=
 --node-version=10.21.0
 --public-repo=True
---script-version=3.3.0
+--script-version=3.3.1