diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index a0daf0291..010c4856f 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ radicle-httpd/target
 radicle-search/target
 target
 .wrangler
+# The desktop app, with its own node_modules and target, isn't part of these images.
+desktop
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 846e22817..b48909763 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 radicle-httpd
+desktop
diff --git a/scripts/check b/scripts/check
index 583a1ab9b..f7d3d08d1 100755
--- a/scripts/check
+++ b/scripts/check
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@ npx svelte-check --tsconfig tsconfig.json --config ./vite.config.ts --fail-on-wa
 # CI can then carry them between builds. They share one directory because a
 # Buildkite cache path is always a directory, never a file.
 mkdir -p .lintcache
-npx eslint --cache --cache-location .lintcache/eslint --cache-strategy content --max-warnings 0 .
+# desktop/ has its own eslint config, which eslint would otherwise pick up for
+# its files. It is linted by desktop/scripts/check-js.
+npx eslint --cache --cache-location .lintcache/eslint --cache-strategy content --max-warnings 0 --ignore-pattern desktop/ .
 npx prettier "**/*.@(ts|js|svelte|json|css|html|yml)" --ignore-path .gitignore --ignore-path .prettierignore --check --cache --cache-location .lintcache/prettier