diff --git a/ai-platform/snippets/package.json b/ai-platform/snippets/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "nodejs-aiplatform-samples",
+  "private": true,
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "author": "Google LLC",
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=10"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "*.js"
+  ],
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "mocha --timeout 600000 test/*.js"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@google-cloud/aiplatform": "^0.1.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "mocha": "^8.0.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ai-platform/snippets/quickstart.js b/ai-platform/snippets/quickstart.js
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+// Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * TODO: add an actual quickstart example.
+ */
+async function main() {
+  // [START aiplatform_quickstart]
+  const {DatasetServiceClient} = require('@google-cloud/aiplatform');
+  const client = new DatasetServiceClient();
+
+  // Do something with DatasetServiceClient.
+  console.info(client);
+
+  // [END aiplatform_quickstart]
+}
+
+main(...process.argv.slice(2)).catch(err => {
+  console.error(err);
+  process.exitCode = 1;
+});
diff --git a/ai-platform/snippets/test/quickstart.test.js b/ai-platform/snippets/test/quickstart.test.js
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2017, Google, Inc.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const {describe, it} = require('mocha');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const cp = require('child_process');
+
+const execSync = cmd => cp.execSync(cmd, {encoding: 'utf-8'});
+
+describe('quickstart', () => {
+  it('should have functional quickstart', async () => {
+    const stdout = execSync('node quickstart');
+    assert(stdout.match(/DatasetServiceClient/));
+  });
+});