diff --git a/.eslintrc.js b/.eslintrc.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49bac18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.eslintrc.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+module.exports = {
+  "ecmaFeatures": {
+    "modules": true,
+    "spread" : true,
+    "restParams" : true
+  },
+  // "plugins": [
+  // "unicorn"
+  //  ],
+  "env": {
+    "es6": true,
+    "node": true,
+    "mocha": true
+  },
+  "parserOptions": {
+    "ecmaVersion": 2017,
+    "sourceType": "module"
+  },
+  "extends": "eslint:recommended",
+  "rules": {
+    "indent": [
+      "error",
+      2
+    ],
+    // "unicorn/no-array-instanceof": "error",
+    "no-console": 0,
+    "semi": ["error", "never"],
+    "linebreak-style": [
+      "error",
+      "unix"
+    ],
+    "quotes": [
+      "error",
+      "single"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e61051f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/node_modules/
+/coverage/
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02078d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+tests/
+test/
+*.test.js
+testing/
+example/
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c35a716
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  "name": "@uci/remote-code",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "description": "module to copy, maintain, and launch hardware modules on other machines",
+  "main": "src/index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "testd": "./node_modules/.bin/mocha -r esm --watch --timeout 30000 || exit 0",
+    "test": "./node_modules/.bin/mocha -r esm --timeout 30000 || exit 0",
+    "testibc": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha test/ --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true"
+  },
+  "author": "David Kebler",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/uci-remote-code.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "node.js",
+    "I2C",
+    "raspberryPi"
+  ],
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/uci-remote-code/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/uci-remote-code#readme",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "chokidar": "^2.0.4",
+    "p-settle": "^2.1.0",
+    "rsyncwrapper": "^3.0.1",
+    "ssh2": "^0.8.2"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "chai": "^4.2.0",
+    "codecov": "^3.1.0",
+    "esm": "^3.1.4",
+    "istanbul": "^0.4.5",
+    "mocha": "^5.x"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83b6323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# uCOMmandIt Template Package Repository
+
+<!-- find and replace the package name to match -->
+[![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template)
+[![Inline docs](http://inch-ci.org/github/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template.svg?branch=master)](http://inch-ci.org/github/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template)
+[![Dependencies](https://img.shields.io/david/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template.svg)](https://david-dm.org/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template)
+[![devDependencies](https://img.shields.io/david/dev/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template.svg)](https://david-dm.org/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template?type=dev)
+[![codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template/master.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/uCOMmandIt/uci-pkg-template)
+
+Clone this to get a quick start on a new uci package.  It has all the testing ready to go with Travis-CI and code coverage.  All the readme badges are included as well
+
+Clone it for as a starting place for your own package!
+
+You'll need codecov and travis-ci accounts
+
+##Steps
+
+1. Clone repo
+2. Edit package.json
+3. Edit badge urls above changing to repo path
+4. Start Coding
diff --git a/src/ignore.js b/src/ignore.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6692a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ignore.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import settle from 'p-settle'
+import { promisify } from 'util'
+import { readFile } from 'fs'
+import path from 'path'
+const read = promisify(readFile)
+
+// A helper function to return a list of paths to ignore from .npmignore, .gitignore, .rcignore
+function ignore (repoPath,files) {
+  // console.log('additional files', files)
+  let ignoreList = []
+  let ignoreFiles = ['.npmignore','.gitignore','.rcignore']
+  if (Array.isArray(files)) {
+    ignoreFiles=[...ignoreFiles,...files]
+  } else {
+    if (files) ignoreFiles.push(files)
+  }
+
+  // each set in an the array is new line delimited set of ignore patterns
+  return settle(ignoreFiles.map(file => {
+    // console.log('directory',path.dirname(file))
+    if (path.dirname(file)==='.') file = repoPath+'/'+file
+    // console.log('file', file)
+    return read(file)
+  }))
+    .then((sets) => {
+      sets.forEach( set =>  {
+        if (set.isFulfilled) ignoreList.push(...set.value.toString().match(/.+/g))
+        else console.log('READ ERROR=> ',set.reason.Error)
+      })
+      // console.log('built list=====================', ignoreList)
+      return Promise.resolve(ignoreList)
+    })
+    .catch((err) => {
+      // only returned when something horrible is wrong
+      return Promise.reject(err)
+    })
+}
+
+export default ignore
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aadf982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import RemoteCode from './remote-code'
+import Ssh from './ssh'
+import Sync from  './sync'
+import Watcher from  './watcher'
+import ignore from  './ignore'
+
+export { RemoteCode, Ssh, Sync, Watcher, ignore }
+export default RemoteCode
diff --git a/src/remote-code.js b/src/remote-code.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46cc93f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/remote-code.js
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+import { EventEmitter as Emitter } from 'events'
+import stream  from 'stream'
+import Watcher from './watcher'
+import Ssh from './ssh'
+import Sync from './lib/sync'
+
+const devNull = new stream.Writable()
+devNull._write = () => null
+
+class RemoteCode {
+  constructor(opts = {}) {
+    // Set defaults
+    // a id emitted with every event emit that can identify which remote code emitted
+    this.id = opts.id
+    this.watch = opts.watch || false
+    this.options.ssh.keepaliveInterval = opts.ssh.keepaliveInterval || 500
+    this.options.ssh.readyTimeout = opts.ssh.readyTimeout || 2000
+    this.options.ssh.port = opts.ssh.port || 22
+    this.options.source = opts.source || '.'
+    this.options.install = opts.install || 'yarn'
+    this.options.install = opts.registry ? `${this.options.install} --registry ${opts.registry}` : this.options.install
+    this.options.start = opts.start || 'nodemon .'
+    if (!(opts.ssh.keyfilePath || opts.ssh.password)) {
+      this.options.ssh.agent = process.env[opts.ssh.agent] || process.env.SSH_AUTH_SOCK || process.env.SSH_AGENT_SOCK
+      if (!this.options.ssh.agent) {
+        return new Error('no ssh authentification method provided')
+      }
+    }
+    this.ssh = new Ssh()
+    this.verbose = opts.verbose || false
+    this.stdout = opts.stdout instanceof stream.Writable ? opts.stdout : new stream.Writable()
+    this.stderr = opts.stderr instanceof stream.Writable ? opts.stderr : new stream.Writable()
+    this.watcher = new Watcher(this.options)
+    this.sync = new Sync(this.options)
+      .addStdOutStream(this.stdout)
+      .addStdErrStream(this.stderr)
+  }
+
+
+
+  _getStdOut() {
+    if (this.verbose) {
+      return this.stdout
+    }
+    return devNull
+  }
+
+  _getStdErr() {
+    if (this.verbose) {
+      return this.stderr
+    }
+    return devNull
+  }
+
+  sync() {
+    this.emit('sync',{})
+    return this.sync.execute()
+  }
+
+  watch() {
+    this.watcher.start()
+    const watchEmitter = this.watcher.getEventEmitter()
+    watchEmitter.on('sync', () => {
+      this.syncCode()
+    })
+    watchEmitter.on('install', () => {
+      return this.install()
+        .then(() => {
+          this.ssh.liveReload.send('rs')
+        })
+    })
+    return this.emitter
+  }
+
+  async init() {
+    this.emitter.emit('start')
+    const sshSettings = this.options.ssh
+    return Promise.all([this.syncCode(), this.watch()])
+      .then(() => this.install())
+      .then(() => this.ssh.liveReload.connect(sshSettings))
+      .then(() => {
+        this.emitter.emit('nodemon', 'start')
+        this.ssh.liveReload.send(`cd ${this.options.target} && ${this.options.start}`)
+      })
+      .catch(this._abort.bind(this))
+  }
+
+  // execute a single command and then resolve
+  execute(cmd, stdout, stderr) {
+    console.log('remote codes exec', cmd)
+    this.emitter.emit('exec', cmd)
+    const ssh = new Ssh()
+    const result = ssh.exec(this.options.ssh, cmd, stdout, stderr)
+    return result
+  }
+
+  async install() {
+    this.emit('install', 'triggered')
+    if (!this.installInProgress) {
+      this.emitter.emit('install', 'started')
+      console.log('calling execute from install')
+      return this.execute(`cd ${this.options.target} && ${this.options.install}`, this._getStdOut(), this._getStdErr())
+        .then(res => {
+          this.emit('install', 'done', res)
+          this.installInProgress = false
+          return res
+        })
+    }
+    return Promise.resolve()
+  }
+
+  close() {
+    this.emitter.emit('close')
+    return Promise.all([this.watcher.close(),
+      this.ssh.liveReload.close()])
+  }
+
+  _abort(err) {
+    this.emitter.emit('error', err)
+  }
+}
+
+export default RemoteCode
diff --git a/src/ssh.js b/src/ssh.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7929bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ssh.js
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+const fs = require('fs')
+const EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter
+const ssh = require('ssh2')
+
+const Client = ssh.Client
+
+class Ssh extends Client {
+  constructor() {
+    super()
+    this._emitter = new EventEmitter()
+    this._ignoreStdOut = []
+    return this.init()
+  }
+
+  init() {
+    const conn = this
+    conn.on('ready', () => {
+      conn.shell((err, stream) => {
+        if (err) {
+          throw err
+        }
+        this.stream = stream
+        this._emit('connect', 'Connection established')
+        stream.on('close', () => {
+          this._emit('close', 'Connection closed')
+          conn.end()
+        })
+        stream.on('data', data => this._emit('data', data))
+        stream.stderr.on('data', data => this._emit('error', data))
+      })
+    })
+    return this
+  }
+
+  connect(opts = {}) {
+    opts.privateKey = opts.keyfilePath ? fs.readFileSync(opts.keyfilePath) : null
+    super.connect(opts)
+    return new Promise(resolve => {
+      this.getEventEmitter().on('connect', () => resolve(this))
+    })
+  }
+
+  getEventEmitter() {
+    return this._emitter
+  }
+
+  _emit(...args) {
+    this._emitter.emit(...args)
+  }
+
+  send(line) {
+    this._ignoreStdOut.push(line)
+    if (this.stream.writable) {
+      this.stream.write(`${line}\n`)
+    }
+  }
+
+  close() {
+    this.end()
+    this.stream = null
+    return this
+  }
+
+  // Supercedes ssh2.exec
+  // execute a single command on the server and close & resolve
+  // uses interactive shell to get stdout/stderr back
+  // stdout, stderr are streams
+  exec(opts, command = 'uptime', stdout, stderr) {
+    let data = ''
+    console.log('executing', opts, command)
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      this
+        .on('ready', () => {
+          this.shell((err, stream) => {
+            stream
+              .on('close', () => {
+                this.end()
+                resolve(data)
+              })
+              .on('data', s => {
+                data += s
+                stdout.write(s)
+              })
+              .stderr.on('data', s => {
+                data += s
+                stderr.write(s)
+              })
+            stream.end(command + '\nexit\n')
+          })
+        })
+        .on('error', e => reject(e))
+        .connect(opts)
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = Ssh
diff --git a/src/sync.js b/src/sync.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..823ccd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sync.js
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+const path = require('path')
+const Rsync = require('rsync')
+
+class Sync {
+  constructor(opts) {
+    this.options = opts
+    this.rsync = new Rsync()
+      .archive()
+      .delete()
+      .compress()
+      .dirs()
+      .exclude('node_modules/')
+      .exclude('.git/')
+      .source(path.join(opts.source, '/'))
+      .destination(`${opts.ssh.username}@${opts.ssh.host}:${path.join(opts.target)}`)
+    // can pass array of string of addition exlcudes - from a list likely
+    if (opts.excludes) {
+      this.rsync.exclude(opts.excludes)
+    }
+    if (opts.ssh.agent) {
+      this.rsync.shell(`ssh -p ${opts.ssh.port}`)
+    }
+    if (opts.ssh.keyfilePath) {
+      // This does NOT work with keys with pass phrase, use an ssh agent!
+      this.rsync.shell(`ssh -i ${opts.ssh.keyfilePath} -p ${opts.ssh.port}`)
+    }
+    if (opts.ssh.password) {
+      this.rsync.shell(`sshpass -p ${opts.ssh.password} ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l ${opts.ssh.username}`)
+    }
+    console.log(this.rsync.command())
+    this.syncInProgress = false
+    return this
+  }
+
+  addStdOutStream(stream) {
+    this.stdOutStream = stream
+    return this
+  }
+
+  addStdErrStream(stream) {
+    this.stdErrStream = stream
+    return this
+  }
+
+  execute() {
+    this.syncInProgress = true
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      this.rsync.execute((err, resCode) => {
+        if (err) {
+          return reject(err)
+        }
+        this.syncInProgress = false
+        resolve(resCode)
+      },
+      this.stdOutStream,
+      this.stdErrStream)
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = Sync
diff --git a/src/watcher.js b/src/watcher.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7a3ad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/watcher.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { EventEmitter as Emitter } from 'events'
+import path from 'path'
+import chokidar from 'chokidar'
+
+class Watcher extends Emitter {
+  constructor(options) {
+    super()
+    // pass in ignores
+    const opts = {
+      ignored: '**/node_modules/**',
+      ignoreInitial: true
+    }
+    const watcher = chokidar.watch(options.source, opts)
+    this.watcher = watcher
+  }
+
+  start() {
+    const handler = (type, f) => {
+      const fname = path.basename(f)
+      if ( fname.toLowerCase() === 'package.json')
+        if (type !=='change') {
+          this.emit('error',new Error('package.json was added or removed, ignoring sync and reinstall'))
+          return
+        } else{
+          this.emit('install', f)
+        }
+      this.emit('sync', f)
+    } // end handler
+    this.watcher
+      .on('add', handler.bind(this, 'add'))
+      .on('change', handler.bind(this, 'change'))
+      .on('unlink', handler.bind(this, 'remove'))
+  }
+
+  stop() {
+    this.watcher.close()
+  }
+
+}
+
+export default Watcher
diff --git a/src/watcher.test.js b/src/watcher.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b589c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/watcher.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import events from 'events';
+import test from 'ava';
+import td from 'testdouble';
+
+const chokidarStub = {};
+
+td.replace('chokidar', chokidarStub);
+const Fn = require('./watcher');
+
+function setup(stubs = {}) {
+	chokidarStub.watch = stubs.watch || (() => new events.EventEmitter());
+	return new Fn({source: '.'});
+}
+
+test('should emit "sync" if file was added/changed/deleted', t => {
+	t.plan(3);
+	const fn = setup();
+	fn.start();
+	fn.getEventEmitter().on('sync', () => t.pass('file change detected'));
+	fn.watcher.emit('add', 'file.txt');
+	fn.watcher.emit('change', 'file.txt');
+	fn.watcher.emit('unlink', 'file.txt');
+});
+
+test('should emit "install" if "package.json" or "yarn.lock" was added/changed/deleted', t => {
+	t.plan(6);
+	const fn = setup();
+	fn.start();
+	fn.getEventEmitter().on('install', () => t.pass('file change detected'));
+	fn.watcher.emit('add', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('change', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('unlink', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('add', 'yarn.lock');
+	fn.watcher.emit('change', 'yarn.lock');
+	fn.watcher.emit('unlink', 'yarn.lock');
+});
+
+test('should emit "sync" if "package.json" or "yarn.lock" was added/changed/deleted', t => {
+	t.plan(6);
+	const fn = setup();
+	fn.start();
+	fn.getEventEmitter().on('sync', () => t.pass('file change detected'));
+	fn.watcher.emit('add', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('change', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('unlink', 'package.json');
+	fn.watcher.emit('add', 'yarn.lock');
+	fn.watcher.emit('change', 'yarn.lock');
+	fn.watcher.emit('unlink', 'yarn.lock');
+});
diff --git a/test/anotherignorefile b/test/anotherignorefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3ecd80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/anotherignorefile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+wtf/
diff --git a/test/ignore.test.js b/test/ignore.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cbf9e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ignore.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+'use strict'
+
+import ignore from '../src/ignore'
+import { expect } from 'chai'
+import { it } from 'mocha'
+// pause = require('@uci/utils').pPause
+
+describe (
+  'Build Ignore Array',
+  function () {
+    // hooks()
+    buildIgnoreList()
+    // someothertests()
+  })
+
+//****************** TESTS **********************
+function buildIgnoreList() {
+  it('==> can create array for multiple files of ignore lines', async function () {
+    const shouldbe = [ 'tests/',
+      'test/',
+      '*.test.js',
+      'testing/',
+      'example/',
+      '/node_modules/',
+      '/coverage/',
+      'foo/**',
+      'bar/*.js' ]
+    let result = await ignore(__dirname+'/repo')
+    //console.log('returned to test',result, shouldbe)
+    expect(result, 'list build failed').to.deep.equal(shouldbe)
+  })
+  it('==> can create array with additional passed in file and relative repo path', async function () {
+    const shouldbe = [ 'tests/',
+      'test/',
+      '*.test.js',
+      'testing/',
+      'example/',
+      '/node_modules/',
+      '/coverage/',
+      'foo/**',
+      'bar/*.js',
+      'bah/*/*.js'
+    ]
+    let result = await ignore('./test/repo','.testignore')
+    //console.log('returned to test',result, shouldbe)
+    expect(result, 'list build failed').to.deep.equal(shouldbe)
+  })
+  it('==> can handle file in other than repo path', async function () {
+    const shouldbe = [ 'tests/',
+      'test/',
+      '*.test.js',
+      'testing/',
+      'example/',
+      '/node_modules/',
+      '/coverage/',
+      'foo/**',
+      'bar/*.js',
+      'wtf/'
+    ]
+    let result = await ignore(__dirname+'/repo','./test/anotherignorefile')
+    //console.log('returned to test',result, shouldbe)
+    expect(result, 'list build failed').to.deep.equal(shouldbe)
+  })
+}
diff --git a/test/repo/.gitignore b/test/repo/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e61051f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/repo/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/node_modules/
+/coverage/
diff --git a/test/repo/.npmignore b/test/repo/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02078d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/repo/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+tests/
+test/
+*.test.js
+testing/
+example/
diff --git a/test/repo/.rcignore b/test/repo/.rcignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3dfa01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/repo/.rcignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+foo/**
+bar/*.js
diff --git a/test/repo/.testignore b/test/repo/.testignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d2e0a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/repo/.testignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+bah/*/*.js