diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f72657f3..2077296f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,10 +64,9 @@ stack build
 
 # Install PureScript dependencies
 cd staging
-psc-package install
+spago install
 
-# note: globs like **/src/** do not work
-stack exec trypurescript 8081 ".psc-package/psc-0.13.6-*/*/*/src/**/*.purs" "src/*.purs"
+stack exec trypurescript 8081 $(spago sources)
 # should output that is is compiling the sources (first time)
 # then: Setting phasers to stun... (port 8081) (ctrl-c to quit)
 ```
diff --git a/staging/.gitignore b/staging/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c6cff108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.spago/
diff --git a/staging/packages.dhall b/staging/packages.dhall
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83881b1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/packages.dhall
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+let upstream =
+      https://github.com/purescript/package-sets/releases/download/psc-0.13.6-20200404/packages.dhall sha256:f239f2e215d0cbd5c203307701748581938f74c4c78f4aeffa32c11c131ef7b6
+
+let overrides = {=}
+
+let additions = {=}
+
+in  upstream // overrides // additions
diff --git a/staging/psc-package.json b/staging/psc-package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 816e6be9..00000000
--- a/staging/psc-package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "core",
-    "set": "psc-0.13.6-20200127",
-    "source": "https://github.com/purescript/package-sets.git",
-    "depends": [
-        "arrays",
-        "bifunctors",
-        "console",
-        "const",
-        "contravariant",
-        "control",
-        "distributive",
-        "effect",
-        "either",
-        "enums",
-        "exceptions",
-        "exists",
-        "foldable-traversable",
-        "foreign",
-        "foreign-object",
-        "free",
-        "functions",
-        "functors",
-        "generics-rep",
-        "globals",
-        "identity",
-        "integers",
-        "lazy",
-        "math",
-        "maybe",
-        "ordered-collections",
-        "prelude",
-        "profunctor",
-        "proxy",
-        "quickcheck",
-        "random",
-        "react",
-        "react-dom",
-        "record",
-        "refs",
-        "semirings",
-        "st",
-        "strings",
-        "tailrec",
-        "transformers",
-        "tuples",
-        "typelevel-prelude",
-        "unfoldable",
-        "validation",
-        "web-dom",
-        "web-html"
-    ]
-}
diff --git a/staging/spago.dhall b/staging/spago.dhall
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c288104
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/spago.dhall
@@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
+{ name = "try-purescript-server"
+, dependencies =
+  [ "aff"
+  , "aff-bus"
+  , "aff-coroutines"
+  , "aff-promise"
+  , "aff-retry"
+  , "affjax"
+  , "ansi"
+  , "argonaut"
+  , "argonaut-codecs"
+  , "argonaut-core"
+  , "argonaut-generic"
+  , "argonaut-traversals"
+  , "array-views"
+  , "arraybuffer"
+  , "arraybuffer-types"
+  , "arrays"
+  , "assert"
+  , "avar"
+  , "b64"
+  , "basic-auth"
+  , "behaviors"
+  , "bifunctors"
+  , "bigints"
+  , "biscotti-cookie"
+  , "biscotti-session"
+  , "bower-json"
+  , "bucketchain"
+  , "bucketchain-basic-auth"
+  , "bucketchain-conditional"
+  , "bucketchain-cors"
+  , "bucketchain-csrf"
+  , "bucketchain-header-utils"
+  , "bucketchain-health"
+  , "bucketchain-history-api-fallback"
+  , "bucketchain-logger"
+  , "bucketchain-secure"
+  , "bucketchain-simple-api"
+  , "bucketchain-sslify"
+  , "bucketchain-static"
+  , "bytestrings"
+  , "call-by-name"
+  , "canvas"
+  , "cartesian"
+  , "catenable-lists"
+  , "checked-exceptions"
+  , "cheerio"
+  , "chirashi"
+  , "choco-pie"
+  , "colors"
+  , "concur-core"
+  , "concur-react"
+  , "console"
+  , "const"
+  , "contravariant"
+  , "control"
+  , "coroutines"
+  , "crypto"
+  , "css"
+  , "cssom"
+  , "data-algebrae"
+  , "datetime"
+  , "debug"
+  , "decimals"
+  , "distributive"
+  , "dom-filereader"
+  , "dom-indexed"
+  , "dotenv"
+  , "drawing"
+  , "effect"
+  , "either"
+  , "email-validate"
+  , "encoding"
+  , "enums"
+  , "errors"
+  , "event"
+  , "exceptions"
+  , "exists"
+  , "exitcodes"
+  , "expect-inferred"
+  , "express"
+  , "filterable"
+  , "fixed-points"
+  , "flare"
+  , "float32"
+  , "flow-id"
+  , "foldable-traversable"
+  , "folds"
+  , "foreign"
+  , "foreign-generic"
+  , "foreign-object"
+  , "fork"
+  , "form-urlencoded"
+  , "format"
+  , "format-nix"
+  , "formatters"
+  , "free"
+  , "freeap"
+  , "freedom"
+  , "freedom-now"
+  , "freedom-portal"
+  , "freedom-router"
+  , "freedom-transition"
+  , "freedom-virtualized"
+  , "freedom-window-resize"
+  , "freet"
+  , "functions"
+  , "functors"
+  , "fuzzy"
+  , "gen"
+  , "generics-rep"
+  , "globals"
+  , "gomtang-basic"
+  , "group"
+  , "halogen"
+  , "halogen-bootstrap"
+  , "halogen-bootstrap4"
+  , "halogen-css"
+  , "halogen-formless"
+  , "halogen-hooks"
+  , "halogen-select"
+  , "halogen-storybook"
+  , "halogen-vdom"
+  , "heterogeneous"
+  , "higher-order"
+  , "html-parser-halogen"
+  , "http-methods"
+  , "httpure"
+  , "httpure-contrib-biscotti"
+  , "hyper"
+  , "hypertrout"
+  , "identity"
+  , "identy"
+  , "indexed-monad"
+  , "int-53"
+  , "integers"
+  , "interpolate"
+  , "invariant"
+  , "jajanmen"
+  , "jquery"
+  , "js-date"
+  , "js-timers"
+  , "json-pointer"
+  , "json-schema"
+  , "jwt"
+  , "kancho"
+  , "kishimen"
+  , "lazy"
+  , "lcg"
+  , "leibniz"
+  , "lenient-html-parser"
+  , "lists"
+  , "logging"
+  , "logging-journald"
+  , "machines"
+  , "makkori"
+  , "math"
+  , "matrices"
+  , "maybe"
+  , "media-types"
+  , "memoize"
+  , "milkis"
+  , "minibench"
+  , "mmorph"
+  , "monad-logger"
+  , "monad-loops"
+  , "money"
+  , "motsunabe"
+  , "mysql"
+  , "naporitan"
+  , "naturals"
+  , "newtype"
+  , "node-buffer"
+  , "node-child-process"
+  , "node-electron"
+  , "node-fs"
+  , "node-fs-aff"
+  , "node-he"
+  , "node-http"
+  , "node-net"
+  , "node-path"
+  , "node-postgres"
+  , "node-process"
+  , "node-readline"
+  , "node-sqlite3"
+  , "node-streams"
+  , "node-telegram-bot-api"
+  , "node-url"
+  , "nodemailer"
+  , "nodetrout"
+  , "nonempty"
+  , "now"
+  , "nullable"
+  , "numbers"
+  , "options"
+  , "optparse"
+  , "ordered-collections"
+  , "orders"
+  , "pairing"
+  , "pairs"
+  , "parallel"
+  , "parsing"
+  , "partial"
+  , "pathy"
+  , "phoenix"
+  , "pipes"
+  , "pointed-list"
+  , "polyform"
+  , "polyform-validators"
+  , "posix-types"
+  , "precise-datetime"
+  , "prelude"
+  , "prettier"
+  , "profunctor"
+  , "profunctor-lenses"
+  , "promises"
+  , "proxy"
+  , "proxying"
+  , "psa-utils"
+  , "psc-ide"
+  , "psci-support"
+  , "quantities"
+  , "querydsl"
+  , "queue"
+  , "quickcheck"
+  , "quickcheck-laws"
+  , "quotient"
+  , "radox"
+  , "random"
+  , "rationals"
+  , "rave"
+  , "react"
+  , "react-basic"
+  , "react-basic-hooks"
+  , "react-basic-native"
+  , "react-dom"
+  , "react-radox"
+  , "react-stylesheet"
+  , "read"
+  , "record"
+  , "record-extra"
+  , "record-format"
+  , "redis-client"
+  , "redis-hotqueue"
+  , "redux-devtools"
+  , "refined"
+  , "refs"
+  , "remotedata"
+  , "result"
+  , "ring-modules"
+  , "routing"
+  , "routing-duplex"
+  , "run"
+  , "run-profunctor-lenses"
+  , "run-streaming"
+  , "safely"
+  , "search-trie"
+  , "selection-foldable"
+  , "semirings"
+  , "server-sent-events"
+  , "shoronpo"
+  , "signal"
+  , "sijidou"
+  , "simple-emitter"
+  , "simple-i18n"
+  , "simple-json"
+  , "simple-json-generics"
+  , "simple-json-utils"
+  , "simple-jwt"
+  , "simple-timestamp"
+  , "sized-matrices"
+  , "sized-vectors"
+  , "slug"
+  , "smolder"
+  , "snabbdom"
+  , "sodium"
+  , "spec"
+  , "spec-discovery"
+  , "spec-quickcheck"
+  , "spork"
+  , "st"
+  , "string-parsers"
+  , "strings"
+  , "strings-extra"
+  , "stringutils"
+  , "strongcheck"
+  , "struct"
+  , "stylesheet"
+  , "subcategory"
+  , "suggest"
+  , "sunde"
+  , "svg-parser"
+  , "svg-parser-halogen"
+  , "systemd-journald"
+  , "tailrec"
+  , "test-unit"
+  , "these"
+  , "tolerant-argonaut"
+  , "toppokki"
+  , "tortellini"
+  , "transformers"
+  , "trout"
+  , "trout-client"
+  , "tuples"
+  , "type-equality"
+  , "type-isequal"
+  , "typedenv"
+  , "typelevel"
+  , "typelevel-peano"
+  , "typelevel-prelude"
+  , "uint"
+  , "undefinable"
+  , "undefined"
+  , "unfoldable"
+  , "unicode"
+  , "unordered-collections"
+  , "unsafe-coerce"
+  , "unsafe-reference"
+  , "uri"
+  , "uuid"
+  , "validation"
+  , "variant"
+  , "vectorfield"
+  , "web-clipboard"
+  , "web-dom"
+  , "web-events"
+  , "web-file"
+  , "web-html"
+  , "web-socket"
+  , "web-storage"
+  , "web-touchevents"
+  , "web-uievents"
+  , "web-xhr"
+  , "xiaomian"
+  , "yargs"
+  ]
+, packages = ./packages.dhall
+, sources = [ "src/**/*.purs" ]
+}
diff --git a/staging/update.sh b/staging/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..0786c7b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Given a package-set ID such as "psc-0.13.6-20200402", this script generates a
+# `packages.dhall` and a `spago.dhall` file so that every package in the given
+# set is listed in the 'dependencies' key of spago.dhall. This means that users
+# of the compile server can use any package from the package set.
+#
+# To update to a new package set, simply rerun the script and check in the
+# updated `spago.dhall` and `packages.dhall`.
+
+package_set="$1"
+
+if [ "$package_set" = "" ]; then
+  echo >&2 "error: expected a package set name"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Creating a project which depends on the entire package set $package_set..."
+
+cat >packages.dhall <<EOF
+let upstream =
+      https://github.com/purescript/package-sets/releases/download/$package_set/packages.dhall
+
+let overrides = {=}
+
+let additions = {=}
+
+in  upstream // overrides // additions
+EOF
+
+cat >spago.dhall <<EOF
+{ name = "try-purescript-server"
+, dependencies = [ "prelude" ]
+, packages = ./packages.dhall
+, sources = [ "src/**/*.purs" ]
+}
+EOF
+
+# Install every package in the set
+spago install $(spago ls packages | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | tr '\n' ' ')