diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 05fbd26..04e9fcc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,11 @@ build/
 # Temp files
 *.swp
 *~
+
+# npmpub files
+src/mraajsJAVASCRIPT_wrap.cxx
+src/version.c
+package.json
+binding.gyp
+READMEFIRST
+npm-debug.log
diff --git a/docs/npm.md b/docs/npm.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49e75c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/npm.md
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+mraa NPM pkg                        {#npmpkg}
+============
+
+What you are looking at is a tarball made after 'make npmpkg' has been run on
+our build system. It contains a few prebuilt files in order to build easily
+with node-gyp on most systems. Note that this is not the preffered way of
+building libmraa and if you'd like to contribute, please learn how the build
+system works and get your sources from git.
+
+Any patches for mraajsJAVASCRIPT_wrap.cxx or version.c will be ignored as these
+are automatically generated files. When you execute a build from node-gyp/npm
+you do not generate the mraajsJAVASCRIPT_wrap.cxx file but rather use one that
+we have generated for you.
+
+Recreating tarball
+------------------
+
+From a checkout of mraa you can do the following to 'generate' this tarball
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.sh}
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake -DBUILDSWIGNODE=ON  ..
+make npmpkg
+cd ../
+tar czv --exclude='build/*' --exclude='.git/*' -f /tmp/mraa.tar.gz .
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index da8bb17..63d15f8 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-include_directories(
+set (mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/api
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/api/mraa
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include
 )
 
-set (mraa_LIB_SRCS
+include_directories(
+  ${mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+)
+
+set (mraa_LIB_SRCS_NOAUTO
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/mraa.c
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/gpio/gpio.c
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/i2c/i2c.c
@@ -17,6 +21,10 @@ set (mraa_LIB_SRCS
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/intel_edison_fab_c.c
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/intel_de3815.c
   ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/intel_minnow_max.c
+)
+
+set (mraa_LIB_SRCS
+  ${mraa_LIB_SRCS_NOAUTO}
 # autogenerated version file
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.c
 )
diff --git a/src/javascript/CMakeLists.txt b/src/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
index 1754979..b25520a 100644
--- a/src/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,5 +37,32 @@ macro (mraa_CREATE_INSTALL_PACKAGE_JSON generated_file install_location)
 endmacro (mraa_CREATE_INSTALL_PACKAGE_JSON)
 mraa_create_install_package_json (package.json lib/node_modules/mraa)
 
+macro (mraa_CREATE_BINDING_GYP generated_file)
+  set (mraa_LIB_SRCS_GYP "")
+  foreach (srcfile ${mraa_LIB_SRCS_NOAUTO})
+    file (RELATIVE_PATH rel ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ${srcfile})
+    set (mraa_LIB_SRCS_GYP "'${rel}',\n${mraa_LIB_SRCS_GYP}")
+  endforeach (srcfile)
+  foreach (includedir ${mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+    file (RELATIVE_PATH rel ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ${includedir})
+    set (mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS_GYP "'${rel}',\n${mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS_GYP}")
+  endforeach (includedir)
+  configure_file (${generated_file}.cmake ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${generated_file} @ONLY)
+endmacro (mraa_CREATE_BINDING_GYP)
+mraa_create_binding_gyp (binding.gyp)
+
+add_custom_target (npmpkg)
+add_custom_command (TARGET npmpkg POST_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mraajsJAVASCRIPT_wrap.cxx ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src
+            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+            ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/src/version.c ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src
+            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/package.json ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/binding.gyp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+	    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+	    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/npm.md ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/READMEFIRST)
+add_dependencies (npmpkg mraajs)
+
 install (FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mraa.node
          DESTINATION lib/node_modules/mraa)
diff --git a/src/javascript/binding.gyp.cmake b/src/javascript/binding.gyp.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54beb08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/javascript/binding.gyp.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  'targets': [
+    {
+      'target_name': 'mraa',
+      'sources': [
+@mraa_LIB_SRCS_GYP@
+'src/version.c',
+'src/mraajsJAVASCRIPT_wrap.cxx' ],
+      'include_dirs': [
+@mraa_LIB_INCLUDE_DIRS_GYP@
+                      ],
+      'cflags_cc!': [ '-fno-rtti', '-fno-exceptions' ],
+      'cflags!': [ '-fno-exceptions' ],
+      'defines' : [ 'SWIG',
+                    'SWIGNODE' ],
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/javascript/package.json.cmake b/src/javascript/package.json.cmake
index dc1f9a2..3c5daea 100644
--- a/src/javascript/package.json.cmake
+++ b/src/javascript/package.json.cmake
@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
 {
   "name" : "mraa",
+  "description": "IO library that helps you use I2c, SPI, gpio, uart, pwm, analog inputs (aio) and more on a number of platforms such as the Intel galileo, the Intel edison and others",
+  "keywords":["gpio", "edison","galileo","io", "mraajs", "spi", "i2c", "minnow", "intel"],
+  "homepage": "http://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa",
+
+
+  "repository" : {
+    "type" : "git",
+    "url" : "http://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa.git"
+  },
   "main" : "./mraa.node",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">= 1.0.x"
   },
+  "bugs": {
+    "url" : "http://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa/issues"
+  },
   "license": "MIT",
-  "version": "@VERSION@"
+  "version": "@VERSION@",
+  "authors": "See github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa/graphs/contributors"
 }