diff --git a/services/web/.gitignore b/services/web/.gitignore
index 0dccc7e668..718e6b6217 100644
--- a/services/web/.gitignore
+++ b/services/web/.gitignore
@@ -63,3 +63,6 @@ modules/**/Makefile
 
 # Sentry secrets file (injected by CI)
 .sentryclirc
+
+# via dev-environment
+.npmrc
diff --git a/services/web/.npmrc b/services/web/.npmrc
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f9f22ed47..0000000000
--- a/services/web/.npmrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# disable local, outside docker invocations of $ npm install
-dry-run=true