diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b3f4bd5759..9e63f184e6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     "clean": "yarn clean:build && del-cli 'site/data/*' 'examples/compiled/*.png' && find site/examples ! -name 'index.md' ! -name 'data' -type f -delete",
     "clean:build": "del-cli 'build/*' !build/vega-lite-schema.json",
     "data": "rsync -r node_modules/vega-datasets/data/* site/data",
+    "build-editor-preview": "scripts/build-editor-preview.sh",
     "schema": "mkdir -p build && ts-json-schema-generator -f tsconfig.json -p src/index.ts -t TopLevelSpec --no-type-check --no-ref-encode > build/vega-lite-schema.json && yarn renameschema && cp build/vega-lite-schema.json site/_data/",
     "renameschema": "scripts/rename-schema.sh",
     "presite": "yarn data && yarn schema && yarn build:site && yarn build:versions && scripts/create-example-pages.sh",
@@ -138,5 +139,6 @@
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=18"
-  }
+  },
+  "packageManager": "yarn@1.22.19"
 }
diff --git a/scripts/build-editor-preview.sh b/scripts/build-editor-preview.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9057003b9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build-editor-preview.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -eo pipefail
+
+# Build the docs site and replace the main build with the local copy of vega-lite
+echo "Attempting install"
+# apt install rsync
+
+yarn build
+yarn link
+git clone https://github.com/vega/editor.git
+
+#
+cd editor
+yarn --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts
+yarn link vega-lite
+
+# TODO: load in real files if we can get rsync installed in the runner someday?
+# Put index.json files in public/spec/vega-lite and public/spec/vega
+echo "Creating stub index.json for each vega library"
+
+mkdir -p public/spec/vega-lite
+mkdir -p public/spec/vega
+touch public/spec/vega-lite/index.json
+touch public/spec/vega/index.json
+
+cat <<EOF > public/spec/vega-lite/index.json
+{}
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > public/spec/vega/index.json
+{}
+EOF
+
+# TBD if some vendor files are needed
+yarn run vite build --base /