diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7c5cdc56..3ccacf89 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
   "version": "2.0.0",
   "description": "Localization for the Scratch 3.0 components",
   "main": "./dist/l10n.js",
+  "bin": {
+    "build-i18n-src": "./scripts/build-i18n-src.js"
+  },
   "scripts": {
     "build:data": "babel-node scripts/build-data",
     "build": "npm run clean && npm run build:data && webpack --progress --colors --bail",
@@ -20,8 +23,12 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/LLK/scratch-l10n/issues"
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/LLK/scratch-l10n#readme",
-  "devDependencies": {
+  "dependencies": {
     "babel-cli": "^6.26.0",
+    "babel-plugin-intl": "^0.1.1",
+    "babel-plugin-react-intl": "^2.3.1"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
     "babel-core": "^6.26.0",
     "babel-eslint": "^7.2.3",
     "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
diff --git a/scripts/build-i18n-src.js b/scripts/build-i18n-src.js
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..9f6571c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build-i18n-src.js
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const glob = require('glob');
+const path = require('path');
+const mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
+
+var args = process.argv.slice(2);
+
+if (!args.length) {
+    process.stdout.write('You must specify the messages dir generated by babel-plugin-react-intl.\n');
+    process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const MESSAGES_PATTERN = args.shift() + '/**/*.json';
+
+if (!args.length) {
+    process.stdout.write('A destination directory must be specified.\n');
+    process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const LANG_DIR = args.shift();
+
+// Aggregates the default messages that were extracted from the example app's
+// React components via the React Intl Babel plugin. An error will be thrown if
+// there are messages in different components that use the same `id`. The result
+// is a chromei18n format collection of `id: {message: defaultMessage,
+// description: description}` pairs for the app's default locale.
+let defaultMessages = glob.sync(MESSAGES_PATTERN)
+    .map((filename) => fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8'))
+    .map((file) => JSON.parse(file))
+    .reduce((collection, descriptors) => {
+        descriptors.forEach(({id, defaultMessage, description}) => {
+            if (collection.hasOwnProperty(id)) {
+                throw new Error(`Duplicate message id: ${id}`);
+            }
+
+            collection[id] = {message: defaultMessage, description: description};
+        });
+
+        return collection;
+    }, {});
+
+mkdirp.sync(LANG_DIR);
+fs.writeFileSync(path.join(LANG_DIR, 'en.json'), JSON.stringify(defaultMessages, null, 2));