diff --git a/.buildpacks b/.buildpacks
index fecb9275b2f..2048e052a92 100644
--- a/.buildpacks
+++ b/.buildpacks
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git#v58
+https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git#v71
 https://github.com/pkgr/heroku-buildpack-ruby.git#universal
diff --git a/packaging/.npmrc b/packaging/.npmrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69cce98870b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/.npmrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+registry = 'http://registry.npmjs.org/'
diff --git a/packaging/setup b/packaging/setup
index 9aa154d3821..6eafcb988b4 100755
--- a/packaging/setup
+++ b/packaging/setup
@@ -6,5 +6,10 @@ sed -i "s|config.serve_static_assets = false|config.serve_static_assets = true|"
 
 cp -f packaging/conf/000-establish-connection.rb config/initializers/
 
+# Specific npmrc used for packaging
+cp -f packaging/.npmrc .npmrc
+# Install dependencies from package.json
+rm -f frontend/npm-shrinkwrap.json
+
 # replace every occurrence of _APP_NAME_ with the corresponding application name we're packaging
 find packaging/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "s|_APP_NAME_|${APP_NAME}|"