diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package-lock.json b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package-lock.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..961c9ef4314f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package-lock.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+  "name": "uglify-js",
+  "version": "3.18.0",
+  "lockfileVersion": 3,
+  "requires": true,
+  "packages": {
+    "": {
+      "name": "uglify-js",
+      "version": "3.18.0",
+      "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
+      "bin": {
+        "uglifyjs": "bin/uglifyjs"
+      },
+      "devDependencies": {
+        "acorn": "~8.7.1",
+        "semver": "~6.3.0"
+      },
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">=0.8.0"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/acorn": {
+      "version": "8.7.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/acorn/-/acorn-8.7.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-Xx54uLJQZ19lKygFXOWsscKUbsBZW0CPykPhVQdhIeIwrbPmJzqeASDInc8nKBnp/JT6igTs82qPXz069H8I/A==",
+      "dev": true,
+      "bin": {
+        "acorn": "bin/acorn"
+      },
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">=0.4.0"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/semver": {
+      "version": "6.3.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/semver/-/semver-6.3.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-BR7VvDCVHO+q2xBEWskxS6DJE1qRnb7DxzUrogb71CWoSficBxYsiAGd+Kl0mmq/MprG9yArRkyrQxTO6XjMzA==",
+      "dev": true,
+      "bin": {
+        "semver": "bin/semver.js"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4056c78af31f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildNpmPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  testers,
+  runCommand,
+  writeText,
+  uglify-js,
+}:
+
+buildNpmPackage rec {
+  pname = "uglify-js";
+  version = "3.18.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mishoo";
+    repo = "UglifyJS";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-m+OEcvWEk4RX0C4re9TFZpkcBvSwl7qfIM+56t100ws=";
+  };
+
+  npmDepsHash = "sha256-iLWmNifHpVvFSFXkfItVpGlh6za9T9wSr1Af4CQQSGM=";
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    cp ${./package-lock.json} package-lock.json
+  '';
+
+  dontNpmBuild = true;
+
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = ./update.sh;
+    tests = {
+      version = testers.testVersion { package = uglify-js; };
+
+      simple = testers.testEqualContents {
+        assertion = "uglify-js minifies a basic js file";
+        expected = writeText "expected" ''
+          console.log(1);
+        '';
+        actual =
+          runCommand "actual"
+            {
+              nativeBuildInputs = [ uglify-js ];
+              base = writeText "base" ''
+                console . log  ( ( 1 ) ) ;
+              '';
+            }
+            ''
+              uglifyjs $base > $out
+            '';
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS";
+    description = "JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier toolkit";
+    mainProgram = "uglifyjs";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lelgenio ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/update.sh b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..a9ebcf39e93b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ug/uglify-js/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p ripgrep common-updater-scripts nodejs prefetch-npm-deps jq
+
+set -xeu -o pipefail
+
+PACKAGE_DIR="$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")"
+cd "$PACKAGE_DIR/.."
+while ! test -f flake.nix; do cd .. ; done
+NIXPKGS_DIR="$PWD"
+
+version="$(
+  list-git-tags --url=https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS \
+  | rg '^v([\d.]+)$' -r '$1' \
+  | sort --version-sort \
+  | tail -n1
+)"
+update-source-version uglify-js "$version"
+
+TMPDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap "rm -rf '$TMPDIR'" EXIT
+cd "$TMPDIR"
+
+src="$(nix-build --no-link "$NIXPKGS_DIR" -A uglify-js.src)"
+cp $src/package*.json .
+
+# Maybe one day upstream may ship a package-lock.json,
+# until then we must generate a fresh one
+test -f package-lock.json || npm install --package-lock-only
+cp -v package-lock.json "$PACKAGE_DIR/package-lock.json"
+
+prev_npm_hash=$(
+  nix-instantiate "$NIXPKGS_DIR" \
+  --eval --json -A uglify-js.npmDepsHash \
+  | jq -r .
+)
+new_npm_hash=$(prefetch-npm-deps ./package-lock.json)
+sd --fixed-strings "$prev_npm_hash" "$new_npm_hash" "$PACKAGE_DIR/package.nix"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
index 43ecfed6d2f58..3effaf34b5c1f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ mapAliases {
   inherit (pkgs) titanium; # added 2023-08-17
   triton = pkgs.triton; # Added 2023-05-06
   typescript = pkgs.typescript; # Added 2023-06-21
+  inherit (pkgs) uglify-js; # added 2024-06-15
   inherit (pkgs) ungit; # added 2023-08-20
   inherit (pkgs) vim-language-server; # added 2024-06-25
   inherit (pkgs) vsc-leetcode-cli; # Added 2023-08-30
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/main-programs.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/main-programs.nix
index 3f73129037ebc..f5c9355b5fa06 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/main-programs.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/main-programs.nix
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
   remod-cli = "remod";
   teck-programmer = "teck-firmware-upgrade";
   typescript-language-server = "typescript-language-server";
-  uglify-js = "uglifyjs";
   undollar = "$";
   vscode-css-languageserver-bin = "css-languageserver";
   vscode-html-languageserver-bin = "html-languageserver";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
index 295fdef57f1cb..e5624e6e967a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@
 , "ts-node"
 , "ttf2eot"
 , "typescript-language-server"
-, "uglify-js"
 , "undollar"
 , "unified-language-server"
 , "vega-cli"