diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bc19c04a9e..4148aad18c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@
   "scripts": {
     "start": "npm run serve",
     "serve": "webpack serve --config webpack.dev.js",
-    "prepare": "node ./scripts/prepare.js",
     "build:development": "webpack --config webpack.dev.js",
     "build:production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=\"production\" webpack --config webpack.prod.js",
     "build:check": "tsc --noEmit",
diff --git a/scripts/prepare.js b/scripts/prepare.js
deleted file mode 100755
index 898b105e2f..0000000000
--- a/scripts/prepare.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-const { execSync } = require('child_process');
-
-/**
- * The npm `prepare` script needs to run a build to support installing
- * a package from git repositories (this is dumb but a limitation of how
- * npm behaves). We don't want to run these in CI though because
- * building is slow so this script will skip the build when the
- * `SKIP_PREPARE` environment variable has been set.
- */
-if (!process.env.SKIP_PREPARE) {
-    execSync('webpack --config webpack.prod.js', { stdio: 'inherit' });
-}