diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/el/element-web-unwrapped/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/el/element-web-unwrapped/package.nix
index 284a790e4a05..577dcd831cc4 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/el/element-web-unwrapped/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/el/element-web-unwrapped/package.nix
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (
       runHook preInstall
 
       cp -R webapp $out
-      tar --extract --to-stdout --file ${jitsi-meet.src} jitsi-meet/libs/external_api.min.js > $out/jitsi_external_api.min.js
+      cp ${jitsi-meet}/libs/external_api.min.js $out/jitsi_external_api.min.js
       echo "${finalAttrs.version}" > "$out/version"
       jq -s '.[0] * $conf' "config.sample.json" --argjson "conf" '${builtins.toJSON noPhoningHome}' > "$out/config.json"
 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/package.nix
index 90cad423959c..50425b233027 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/package.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,50 @@
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
   nixosTests,
+
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchNpmDeps,
+  npmHooks,
+
+  libarchive,
+  nodejs,
+
   olm,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "jitsi-meet";
-  version = "1.0.8043";
+  version = "1.0.8792";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/src/jitsi-meet-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "XJlfCMQXnHjfHQhK916RXsdPzrU2U2IaOMiXIHL1sCI=";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jitsi";
+    repo = "jitsi-meet";
+    tag = lib.last (lib.splitVersion finalAttrs.version);
+    hash = "sha256-K4Xrse1kpNqlUChbQnAjP5lRCRuDfJKiN/022tCmMVQ=";
   };
 
-  dontBuild = true;
+  env = {
+    makeFlags = "source-package";
+    makeCacheWritable = true;
+    npmDeps = fetchNpmDeps {
+      inherit (finalAttrs) src;
+      hash = "sha256-2NPfr3gskHz9zSGs//uzyCCuE+CZ295hhitDPlS9xuY=";
+    };
+  };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    libarchive
+    nodejs
+    npmHooks.npmConfigHook
+  ];
+
+  # yes, the only way in the build system is to generate a tarball and extract
+  # it immediately after
   installPhase = ''
     runHook preInstall
-    mkdir $out
-    mv * $out/
+    mkdir -p $out
+    bsdtar -xf jitsi-meet.tar.bz2 -C $out --strip-components 1
     runHook postInstall
   '';
 
@@ -31,16 +55,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   passthru.updateScript = ./update.sh;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences";
     longDescription = ''
       Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge
       to provide high quality, secure and scalable video conferences.
     '';
     homepage = "https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    teams = [ teams.jitsi ];
-    platforms = platforms.all;
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    teams = [ lib.teams.jitsi ];
+    inherit (nodejs.meta) platforms;
     inherit (olm.meta) knownVulnerabilities;
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/update.sh b/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/update.sh
index 1ccf45fd1a4c..12fb08e99c02 100755
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ji/jitsi-meet/update.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl pup common-updater-scripts
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl pup nix-update
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
-version="$(curl https://download.jitsi.org/stable/ | \
-    pup 'a[href] text{}' | \
-    awk -F'[_-]' '/jitsi-meet-web_/ {printf $4"\n"}' | \
-    sort -Vu | \
-    tail -n 1)"
+version="$(curl https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/src/ |
+  pup 'a[href] text{}' |
+  awk -F'-|.tar.bz2' '/jitsi-meet-/ {printf $3"\n"}' |
+  sort -Vu |
+  tail -n 1)"
 
-update-source-version jitsi-meet "$version"
+nix-update --version="$version" jitsi-meet