diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 646ac519..56997d77 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .DS_Store
 node_modules/
+build
diff --git a/component.json b/component.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..36c99c7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component.json
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "name": "twemoji",
+  "license": ["MIT", "CC-BY-4.0"],
+  "description": "A Unicode standard based way to implement emoji across all platforms.",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/twitter/twemoji",
+  "keywords": [
+    "emoji",
+    "DOM",
+    "parser",
+    "images",
+    "retina",
+    "Twitter",
+    "unicode"
+  ],
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Twitter, Inc.",
+    "web": "https://github.com/twitter/"
+  },
+  "repository": "twitter/twemoji",
+  "main": "twemoji.js",
+  "scripts": [
+    "twemoji.js"
+  ]
+}