diff --git a/bindings/javascript/.gitignore b/bindings/javascript/.gitignore
index 17b4c53a2..218a2e53e 100644
--- a/bindings/javascript/.gitignore
+++ b/bindings/javascript/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 publish.log
+# generated by CMake configure from package-tmpl.json
+package.json
diff --git a/bindings/javascript/package.json b/bindings/javascript/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index ce9bb54b3..000000000
--- a/bindings/javascript/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "whisper.cpp",
-  "version": "1.9.3",
-  "description": "Whisper speech recognition",
-  "main": "whisper.js",
-  "scripts": {
-    "test": "echo \"todo: add tests\" && exit 0"
-  },
-  "repository": {
-    "type": "git",
-    "url": "git+https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp"
-  },
-  "keywords": [
-    "openai",
-    "whisper",
-    "speech-to-text",
-    "speech-recognition",
-    "transformer"
-  ],
-  "author": "Georgi Gerganov",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "bugs": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues"
-  },
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#readme"
-}