diff --git a/web/packages/build-config/tsconfig.json b/web/packages/build-config/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    /* A minimal tsconfig so that we can run tsc on the build-config package
+       itself */
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "checkJs": true
+    },
+    "include": ["*.js"]
+}