diff --git a/client/modules/IDE/components/NewFileModal.jsx b/client/modules/IDE/components/NewFileModal.jsx
index aeed9598..433c3daa 100644
--- a/client/modules/IDE/components/NewFileModal.jsx
+++ b/client/modules/IDE/components/NewFileModal.jsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import classNames from 'classnames';
 import InlineSVG from 'react-inlinesvg';
 import NewFileForm from './NewFileForm';
 import FileUploader from './FileUploader';
+import { CREATE_FILE_REGEX } from '../../../../server/utils/fileUtils';
 
 const exitUrl = require('../../../images/exit.svg');
 
@@ -71,8 +72,8 @@ function validate(formProps) {
 
   if (!formProps.name) {
     errors.name = 'Please enter a name';
-  } else if (!formProps.name.match(/(.+\.js$|.+\.css$|.+\.json$|.+\.txt$|.+\.csv$|.+\.tsv$)/i)) {
-    errors.name = 'File must be of type JavaScript, CSS, JSON, TXT, CSV, or TSV.';
+  } else if (!formProps.name.match(CREATE_FILE_REGEX)) {
+    errors.name = 'Invalid file type. Valid extensions are .js, .css, .json, .txt, .csv, .tsv, .frag, and .vert.';
   }
 
   return errors;
diff --git a/server/utils/fileUtils.js b/server/utils/fileUtils.js
index 0e6a7e58..c63cff9f 100644
--- a/server/utils/fileUtils.js
+++ b/server/utils/fileUtils.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 export const fileExtensionsArray = ['gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'bmp', 'wav', 'flac', 'ogg',
   'oga', 'mp4', 'm4p', 'mp3', 'm4a', 'aiff', 'aif', 'm4v', 'aac', 'webm', 'mpg', 'mp2',
   'mpeg', 'mpe', 'mpv', 'js', 'jsx', 'html', 'htm', 'css', 'json', 'csv', 'obj', 'svg',
-  'otf', 'ttf', 'txt', 'mov', 'vert', 'frag'];
+  'otf', 'ttf', 'txt', 'mov', 'vert', 'frag', 'bin'];
 
 export const mimeTypes = `image/*,audio/*,text/javascript,text/html,text/css,
 application/json,application/x-font-ttf,application/x-font-truetype,text/plain,
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ export const STRING_REGEX = /(['"])((\\\1|.)*?)\1/gm;
 // these are files that have to be linked to with a blob url
 export const PLAINTEXT_FILE_REGEX = /.+\.(json|txt|csv|vert|frag|tsv)$/i;
 // these are files that users would want to edit as text (maybe svg should be here?)
-export const TEXT_FILE_REGEX = /.+\.(json|txt|csv|vert|frag|js|css|html|htm|jsx)$/i;
+export const TEXT_FILE_REGEX = /.+\.(json|txt|csv|tsv|vert|frag|js|css|html|htm|jsx)$/i;
 export const NOT_EXTERNAL_LINK_REGEX = /^(?!(http:\/\/|https:\/\/))/;
 export const EXTERNAL_LINK_REGEX = /^(http:\/\/|https:\/\/)/;
+
+export const CREATE_FILE_REGEX = /.+\.(json|txt|csv|tsv|js|css|frag|vert)$/i;