diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-generated-files.yml b/.github/workflows/check-generated-files.yml
index 0f5b6ecc64c1..69d0ba86004f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-generated-files.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-generated-files.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ jobs:
           filters: |
             api:
               - 'tooling/api/src/**'
-              - 'tooling/api/docs/js-api.json'
               - 'core/tauri/scripts/bundle.global.js'
             schema:
               - 'core/tauri-utils/src/config.rs'
@@ -50,9 +49,7 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: tooling/api
         run: yarn && yarn build
       - name: check api
-        run: |
-          git restore tooling/api/docs/js-api.json
-          ./.scripts/ci/has-diff.sh
+        run: ./.scripts/ci/has-diff.sh
 
   schema:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index fd6c5b9ba982..b8a0bcc4fd25 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ dist
 /tooling/cli/templates
 /tooling/cli/node
 /tooling/cli/schema.json
-/tooling/api/docs/js-api.json
 /core/tauri-config-schema/schema.json
diff --git a/tooling/api/.gitignore b/tooling/api/.gitignore
index 99b0d35f79ae..6b41dba2686f 100644
--- a/tooling/api/.gitignore
+++ b/tooling/api/.gitignore
@@ -65,4 +65,3 @@ package-lock.json
 
 # Documentation output
 docs/*
-!docs/js-api.json