diff --git a/recipes-devtools/nodejs/files/no-registry_8.x.patch b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/files/no-registry_8.x.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5b5e433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/files/no-registry_8.x.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -Naur node-v6.10.0/deps/npm/lib/utils/map-to-registry.js node-v6.10.0b/deps/npm/lib/utils/map-to-registry.js
+--- node-v6.10.0/deps/npm/lib/utils/map-to-registry.js	2017-02-21 18:40:14.000000000 -0600
++++ node-v6.10.0b/deps/npm/lib/utils/map-to-registry.js	2017-04-18 14:38:29.640908067 -0500
+@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
+
+   log.silly('mapToRegistry', 'registry', registry)
++   if (!registry) return cb(null, "http://noregistry/" + name, {})
+
+   var auth = config.getCredentialsByURI(registry)
+
+   // normalize registry URL so resolution doesn't drop a piece of registry URL
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.9.4.bb b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.9.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7580e79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.9.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require nodejs_8.inc
+require nodejs_lts.inc
+
+INC_PR = "r1"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=270f7477a1705f7cd3e29d3d4512915d"
+
+SRC_URI[src.md5sum] = "4ddc1daff327d7e6f63da57fdfc24f55"
+SRC_URI[src.sha256sum] = "729b44b32b2f82ecd5befac4f7518de0c4e3add34e8fe878f745740a66cbbc01"
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.inc b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b488b497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_8.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://nodejs.org"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_armv4 = "(!.*armv4).*"
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_armv6 = "(!.*armv6).*"
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_armv8 = "(!.*armv8).*"
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_mips64 = "(!.*mips64).*"
+
+INC_PR = "r1"
+PR = "${INC_PR}.8"
+
+PROVIDES = "node"
+RPROVIDES_${PN} = "node"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://nodejs.org/dist/v${PV}/node-v${PV}.tar.gz;name=src\
+           file://no-registry_8.x.patch"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/node-v${PV}"
+
+# v8 errors out if you have set CCACHE
+CCACHE = ""
+
+inherit nodejs-arch
+
+ARCHFLAGS_arm = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'callconvention-hard', '--with-arm-float-abi=hard', '--with-arm-float-abi=softfp', d)} \
+                 ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'neon', '--with-arm-fpu=neon', \
+                    bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfpv3d16', '--with-arm-fpu=vfpv3-d16', \
+                    bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfpv3', '--with-arm-fpu=vfpv3', \
+                    '--with-arm-fpu=vfp', d), d), d)}"
+ARCHFLAGS ?= ""
+
+GYP_DEFINES_append_mipsel = " mips_arch_variant='r1' "
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "zlib openssl"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--shared-zlib,,zlib,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "--shared-openssl,,openssl,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[v8-inspector] = ",--without-inspector,,"
+
+DISABLE_STATIC = ""
+
+do_configure () {
+  export LD="${CXX}"
+  GYP_DEFINES="${GYP_DEFINES}" export GYP_DEFINES
+  ./configure	--prefix="${prefix}" \
+		--dest-cpu="${@nodejs_map_dest_cpu(d.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', True), d)}" \
+		--dest-os=linux ${ARCHFLAGS} \
+		--without-snapshot \
+		--with-intl=none \
+		${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS}
+}
+
+do_compile () {
+  export LD="${CXX}"
+  oe_runmake BUILDTYPE=Release
+}
+
+do_install () {
+  oe_runmake install DESTDIR="${D}"
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-native() {
+  # make sure we use node from PATH instead of absolute path to sysroot
+  sed "1s^.*^#\!/usr/bin/env node^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-nativesdk() {
+  # make sure we use node from PATH instead of absolute path to sysroot
+  sed "1s^.*^#\!/usr/bin/env node^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
+  sed "1s^.*^#\!/usr/bin/env python^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/samples/samples
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-target() {
+  # make sure we use node from PATH instead of absolute path to sysroot
+  sed "1s^.*^#\!${bindir}/env node^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
+}
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-npm"
+FILES_${PN}-npm = "${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules ${bindir}/npm"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-npm = "bash python-compiler python-shell python-datetime python-subprocess python-multiprocessing python-crypt python-textutils python-netclient python-misc"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-dtrace"
+FILES_${PN}-dtrace = "${exec_prefix}/lib/dtrace"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-systemtap"
+FILES_${PN}-systemtap = "${datadir}/systemtap"
+
+INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "file-rdeps"
+INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-dbg += "host-user-contaminated"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"