diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
index b025376e6..dc00025a2 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
@@ -585,6 +585,17 @@ EDXAPP_PRIVATE_REQUIREMENTS:
     # Caliper and xAPI event routing plugin
     - name: edx-event-routing-backends==5.5.6
 
+# List of additional npm packages that should be installed into the
+# edxapp virtual environment.
+# `name` (required) and `version_range` (optional) are supported and
+# correspond to the options of ansible's pip module.
+# Example:
+# EDXAPP_EXTRA_NPM_REQUIREMENTS:
+#   - name: mypackage
+#     version_range: ^1.0.0
+#   - name: git+https://git.myproject.org/MyProject#egg=MyProject
+EDXAPP_EXTRA_NPM_REQUIREMENTS: []
+
 # List of custom middlewares that should be used in edxapp to process
 # incoming HTTP resquests. Should be a list of plain strings that fully
 # qualify Python classes or functions that can be used as Django middleware.
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
index 136a1182e..9b942462a 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
@@ -317,6 +317,18 @@
     - install
     - install:app-requirements
 
+- name: Install private node dependencies
+  shell: "easy_install --version && npm install --no-save {{ item.name }}{{ '@' + item.version_range if item.version_range is defined else '' }}"
+  with_items: "{{ EDXAPP_EXTRA_NPM_REQUIREMENTS }}"
+  args:
+    chdir: "{{ edxapp_code_dir }}"
+  environment: "{{ edxapp_environment | combine(git_ssh_environment_mixin) }}"
+  become_user: "{{ edxapp_user }}"
+  when: "{{ EDXAPP_EXTRA_NPM_REQUIREMENTS }} | length > 0"
+  tags:
+    - install
+    - install:app-requirements
+
 # The next few tasks set up the python code sandbox
 
 # need to disable this profile, otherwise the pip inside the sandbox venv has no permissions