diff --git a/doc/what-and-why.md b/doc/what-and-why.md
index 1029e5f..ad27d70 100644
--- a/doc/what-and-why.md
+++ b/doc/what-and-why.md
@@ -76,6 +76,19 @@ They may be removed at some point, but they should be straight-forward
 to generate as long as one has a suitable `tree-sitter` cli and the
 `grammar.js` file mentioned above.
 
+In order to successfully build the Node.js bindings (say, by an
+invocation of `npx node-gyp rebuild`), something like the following
+may need to be added to `package.json`:
+
+```json
+  "main": "bindings/node",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "nan": "2.14.2"
+  },
+```
+
+Note that the version of `nan` may need to be checked.
+
 ## Footnotes
 
 [1] The file `package.json` may also be required if it's important to
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 91d44c1..66326ca 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   "name": "tree-sitter-clojure",
   "version": "0.0.12",
   "description": "Clojure grammar for tree-sitter",
-  "main": "bindings/node",
   "tree-sitter": [
     {
       "scope": "source.clojure",