diff --git a/doc/staging.md b/doc/staging.md
index 7c16845..70a56d1 100644
--- a/doc/staging.md
+++ b/doc/staging.md
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ knife cookbook site install partial_search
 knife cookbook site install ssh_known_hosts
 knife cookbook site install git_user
 knife cookbook site install chef-vault
+knife cookbook site install homebrew
+knife cookbook site install nodejs
 ```
 
 ### Current cookbooks
@@ -58,8 +60,10 @@ knife cookbook site install chef-vault
  - ebs                 ==  0.3.6
  - git                 ==  4.2.2
  - git_user            ==  0.3.1
+ - homebrew            ==  2.1.2
  - java                ==  1.39.0
  - logrotate           ==  1.9.1
+ - nodejs              ==  2.4.4
  - packagecloud        ==  0.0.17
  - partial_search      ==  1.0.8
  - runit               ==  1.6.0
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 1fb4308..ba7956c 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -32,4 +32,7 @@
 depends 'chef-sbt'
 depends 'sbt-extras'
 
-depends 'runit', '~> 1.5'
\ No newline at end of file
+depends 'runit', '~> 1.5'
+
+depends 'nodejs'
+
diff --git a/recipes/_worker-init-debian.rb b/recipes/_worker-init-debian.rb
index bccf928..f95457e 100644
--- a/recipes/_worker-init-debian.rb
+++ b/recipes/_worker-init-debian.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 include_recipe "apt" # do apt-get update
 
+include_recipe "nodejs"  # for Scala.js
+
 include_recipe "scala-jenkins-infra::_java_packages"
 
 # NOTE: MUST BE LAST -- it selects the chef-configured jdk (the above packages install openjdk 7 & 8, but we want something else)