diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index adca89a1..b75a738d 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     - will make it easier to test new services?
 
 ### upstreaming
+- bump nodejs version in lemmy-ui
 - add updateScripts to all my packages in nixpkgs
 - fix lightdm-mobile-greeter for newer libhandy
 - port zecwallet-lite to a from-source build
diff --git a/pkgs/default.nix b/pkgs/default.nix
index 25ec401f..6a7ecb14 100644
--- a/pkgs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/default.nix
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ let
     jackett = callPackage ./patched/jackett { inherit (unpatched) jackett; };
 
     lemmy-server = callPackage ./patched/lemmy-server { inherit (unpatched) lemmy-server; };
+    lemmy-ui = callPackage ./patched/lemmy-ui { inherit (unpatched) lemmy-ui; };
 
     phoc = callPackage ./patched/phoc { inherit (unpatched) phoc; };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/patched/lemmy-ui/default.nix b/pkgs/patched/lemmy-ui/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74fb75b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/patched/lemmy-ui/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{ lemmy-ui, nodejs }:
+lemmy-ui.override {
+  # build w/ latest nodejs; not 14.x
+  inherit nodejs;
+}