diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
index f4ae33b209..32f5543c28 100644
--- a/.npmignore
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ lib/core/MetadataBlog.js
 yarn.lock
 website
 docs
+docusaurus-init
diff --git a/docusaurus-init/initialize.js b/docusaurus-init/initialize.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3a5d22c206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docusaurus-init/initialize.js
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+const shell = require("shelljs");
+const chalk = require("chalk");
+const fs = require("fs");
+
+const CWD = process.cwd();
+
+let useYarn = false;
+if (shell.which("yarn")) {
+  useYarn = true;
+}
+
+if (fs.existsSync(CWD + "/website")) {
+  console.error(chalk.yellow("Website folder already exists.\n"));
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+shell.cd(CWD);
+
+shell.mkdir("website");
+
+console.log(chalk.green("Website folder created!\n"));
+
+shell.cd("website");
+
+console.log(
+  chalk.yellow("Installing latest version of Docusaurus in website.\n")
+);
+
+const packageContent = { scripts: { examples: "docusaurus-examples" } };
+fs.writeFileSync(CWD + "/website/package.json", JSON.stringify(packageContent));
+
+if (useYarn) {
+  shell.exec("yarn add docusaurus --dev");
+} else {
+  shell.exec("npm install docusaurus --save-dev");
+}
+
+console.log(chalk.green("Docusaurus installed in website folder!\n"));
+
+if (useYarn) {
+  shell.exec("yarn run examples");
+} else {
+  shell.exec("npm run examples");
+}
diff --git a/docusaurus-init/package.json b/docusaurus-init/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0de87ae3c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docusaurus-init/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "name": "docusaurus-init",
+  "version": "1.0.0-alpha.0",
+  "preferGlobal": true,
+  "bin": {
+    "docusaurus-init": "initialize.js"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "chalk": "^2.1.0",
+    "shelljs": "^0.7.8"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/lib/copy-examples.js b/lib/copy-examples.js
index 3c8198ce03..abf64cbd29 100755
--- a/lib/copy-examples.js
+++ b/lib/copy-examples.js
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ if (feature === "translations") {
     }
     const containingFolder = path.basename(path.dirname(file));
     if (
+      path.basename(file) === "gitignore" ||
       containingFolder === "blog-examples-from-docusaurus" ||
       containingFolder === "docs-examples-from-docusaurus"
     ) {
@@ -205,3 +206,28 @@ if (feature === "translations") {
     }
   });
 }
+
+// add scripts to package.json file
+if (fs.existsSync(CWD + "/package.json")) {
+  const packageContent = JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(CWD + "/package.json", "utf8")
+  );
+  if (!packageContent.scripts) {
+    packageContent.scripts = {};
+  }
+  packageContent.scripts["start"] = "docusaurus-start";
+  packageContent.scripts["build"] = "docusaurus-build";
+  packageContent.scripts["publish-gh-pages"] = "docusaurus-publish";
+  packageContent.scripts["examples"] = "docusaurus-examples";
+  packageContent.scripts["write-translations"] =
+    "docusaurus-write-translations";
+  packageContent.scripts["version"] = "docusaurus-version";
+  packageContent.scripts["rename-version"] = "docusaurus-rename-version";
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    CWD + "/package.json",
+    JSON.stringify(packageContent, null, 2)
+  );
+  console.log(
+    `${chalk.green("Wrote docusaurus scripts to package.json file.")}\n`
+  );
+}