diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.json b/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 51ed0e24ffeb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "@electron/asar",
-  "description": "Creating Electron app packages",
-  "version": "0.0.0-development",
-  "main": "./lib/asar.js",
-  "types": "./lib/index.d.ts",
-  "bin": {
-    "asar": "./bin/asar.js"
-  },
-  "files": [
-    "bin",
-    "lib",
-    "lib/index.d.ts"
-  ],
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=10.12.0"
-  },
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/electron/asar",
-  "repository": {
-    "type": "git",
-    "url": "https://github.com/electron/asar.git"
-  },
-  "bugs": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/electron/asar/issues"
-  },
-  "scripts": {
-    "mocha": "xvfb-maybe electron-mocha --reporter spec && mocha --reporter spec",
-    "test": "npm run lint && npm run mocha",
-    "lint": "tsd && standard",
-    "standard": "standard",
-    "tsd": "tsd"
-  },
-  "standard": {
-    "env": {
-      "mocha": true
-    },
-    "globals": [
-      "BigInt"
-    ]
-  },
-  "tsd": {
-    "directory": "test"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "chromium-pickle-js": "^0.2.0",
-    "commander": "^5.0.0",
-    "glob": "^7.1.6",
-    "minimatch": "^3.0.4"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "@continuous-auth/semantic-release-npm": "^3.0.0",
-    "electron": "^22.0.0",
-    "electron-mocha": "^11.0.2",
-    "lodash": "^4.17.15",
-    "mocha": "^10.1.0",
-    "rimraf": "^3.0.2",
-    "standard": "^14.3.3",
-    "tsd": "^0.25.0",
-    "xvfb-maybe": "^0.2.1"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.nix
index 4cedace23d13..54b847819864 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/as/asar/package.nix
@@ -1,43 +1,34 @@
 {
   lib,
-  mkYarnPackage,
+  stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   fetchYarnDeps,
+  yarnConfigHook,
+  yarnInstallHook,
+  nodejs,
 }:
 
-mkYarnPackage rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "asar";
   version = "3.2.4";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "electron";
     repo = "asar";
-    rev = "v${version}";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
     hash = "sha256-12FP8VRDo1PQ+tiN4zhzkcfAx9zFs/0MU03t/vFo074=";
   };
 
-  packageJSON = ./package.json;
-
   offlineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
-    yarnLock = "${src}/yarn.lock";
+    yarnLock = "${finalAttrs.src}/yarn.lock";
     hash = "sha256-/fV3hd98pl46+fgmiMH9sDQrrZgdLY1oF9c3TaIxRSg=";
   };
 
-  doDist = false;
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-
-    mkdir -p "$out/lib/node_modules"
-    mv deps/@electron "$out/lib/node_modules"
-    rm "$out/lib/node_modules/@electron/asar/node_modules"
-    mv node_modules "$out/lib/node_modules/@electron/asar"
-
-    mkdir "$out/bin"
-    ln -s "$out/lib/node_modules/@electron/asar/bin/asar.js" "$out/bin/asar"
-
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    yarnConfigHook
+    yarnInstallHook
+    nodejs
+  ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing";
@@ -46,4 +37,4 @@ mkYarnPackage rec {
     mainProgram = "asar";
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ xvapx ];
   };
-}
+})