diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3c3629e647..4c687f7368 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 node_modules
+build
+
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
index 9daeafb986..dba3eef025 100644
--- a/.npmignore
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
+build
+docs
+script
 test
diff --git a/docs/index.asciidoc b/docs/index.asciidoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8e7b62aca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/index.asciidoc
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+= APM Node.js Agent Reference
+
+
+== APM Node.js Agent
+
+Welcome to the APM Node.js agent docs.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8829b8c929..2468486ef8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "description": "The official Elastic APM agent for Node.js",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
+    "docs": "./script/build_docs.sh apm-agent-nodejs ./docs ./build",
     "lint": "standard",
     "lint-fix": "standard --fix",
     "pretest": "test/pretest.sh",
diff --git a/script/build_docs.sh b/script/build_docs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d94efb98b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/build_docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+name=$1
+path=$2
+build_dir=$3
+
+docs_dir=$build_dir/docs
+html_dir=$build_dir/html_docs
+
+# Checks if docs clone already exists
+if [ ! -d $docs_dir ]; then
+    # Only head is cloned
+    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/elastic/docs.git $docs_dir
+else
+    echo "$docs_dir already exists. Not cloning."
+fi
+
+
+index="${path}/index.asciidoc"
+
+echo "Building docs for ${name}..."
+echo "Index document: ${index}"
+
+dest_dir="$html_dir/${name}"
+mkdir -p "$dest_dir"
+params=""
+if [ "$PREVIEW" = "1" ]; then
+  params="--chunk=1 -open chunk=1 -open"
+fi
+$docs_dir/build_docs.pl $params --doc "$index" -out "$dest_dir"