diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02aff9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "uWebSockets"]
+	path = uWebSockets
+	url = https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b33a5b5..6507915 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-C_SHARED := -DLIBUS_USE_LIBUV -flto -O3 -c -fPIC -I ../uWebSockets/uSockets/src ../uWebSockets/uSockets/src/*.c ../uWebSockets/uSockets/src/eventing/*.c
+C_SHARED := -DLIBUS_USE_LIBUV -flto -O3 -c -fPIC -I uWebSockets/uSockets/src uWebSockets/uSockets/src/*.c uWebSockets/uSockets/src/eventing/*.c
 
-CPP_SHARED := -DLIBUS_USE_LIBUV -flto -O3 -c -fPIC -std=c++17 -I ../uWebSockets/uSockets/src -I ../uWebSockets/src src/addon.cpp
+CPP_SHARED := -DLIBUS_USE_LIBUV -flto -O3 -c -fPIC -std=c++17 -I uWebSockets/uSockets/src -I uWebSockets/src src/addon.cpp
 
 CPP_OSX := -stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -undefined dynamic_lookup
 
diff --git a/uWebSockets b/uWebSockets
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..62ac8d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uWebSockets
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 62ac8d16de51060d8271e1bff3d4093ddb3aad6f