diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 73fa740..0966c2d 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -4,12 +4,22 @@
 vendor
 storage
 .env
+.env.example
 .phpunit.cache
 .phpunit.result.cache
+phpunit.xml
+tests
 docs
 README.md
+docker-compose.yml
 
-# Frontend: the build runs `npm ci` in its own stage, and dist/ is emitted there.
+# Frontend: the build runs `npm ci` in its own stage, and dist/ is emitted
+# there -- none of this reaches either stage's COPY (web/package.json,
+# web/package-lock.json, web/), it'd just be dead weight in the build context.
 web/node_modules
 web/dist
 web/dev-dist
+web/.gitignore
+web/.dockerignore
+web/.env.example
+web/README.md