diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..39ad65981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+**
+!src/**/*
+__tests__
+.DS_Store
+src/plugins/**/*
+src/fb/**/*
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 090ce57d1..d5f98882c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "name": "flipper",
-  "private": true,
   "version": "0.23.4",
   "versionDate": "2018-4-12",
   "description": "Mobile development tool",
diff --git a/scripts/npm-publish.sh b/scripts/npm-publish.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7c3dc5fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/npm-publish.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE file
+# in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+set -e
+
+THIS_DIR=$(cd -P "$(dirname "$(readlink "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" || echo "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")" && pwd)
+cd "$THIS_DIR/.."
+
+# remove scripts section from package.json, because we don't want post-install scripts executed for plugin developers
+jq 'del(.scripts)' package.json > package2.json
+rm package.json
+mv package2.json package.json
+
+echo "//registry.yarnpkg.com/:_authToken=$(secrets_tool get FLIPPER_NPM_TOKEN)" > ~/.npmrc
+../third-party/yarn/yarn publish --proxy http://fwdproxy:8080 --https-proxy http://fwdproxy:8080 --new-version "$1"
+rm -rf ~/.npmrc
diff --git a/scripts/public-build.json b/scripts/public-build.json
index 5776695da..ebe77ee64 100644
--- a/scripts/public-build.json
+++ b/scripts/public-build.json
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
         "shell":
           "curl -x fwdproxy:8080 $(cat RELEASE.json | jq -r '.upload_url' | sed -e 's#{?name,label}##')'?access_token='$(secrets_tool get SONAR_GITHUB_TOKEN)'&name=Flipper.zip' --header 'Content-Type: application/zip' --upload-file $SANDCASTLE_NEXUS'/Flipper-mac.zip' -X POST",
         "shell_type": "SandcastleLocalShell"
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "NPM publish",
+        "required": true,
+        "shell": "cd ../xplat/sonar-public/scripts/ && ./npm-publish.sh __VERSION__"
       }
     ]
   },