diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f7adcf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Procfile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+web: gunicorn --chdir server/eb app:application --log-file -
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e3722f75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "name": "cellxgene",
+  "scripts": {
+    "postinstall": "npm install --prefix client && npm run build --prefix client && make copy-client-assets"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..815cac2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+-r ./server/requirements.txt
diff --git a/server/requirements.txt b/server/requirements.txt
index 603929f6..a568e9ee 100644
--- a/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/server/requirements.txt
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ scipy>=1.3.0
 requests>=2.22.0
 tiledb>=0.5.3
 s3fs>=0.4.2
+gunicorn>=20.0.4