diff --git a/src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts b/src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts
index 2e26eaa0c..31d5138e6 100644
--- a/src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts
+++ b/src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import path from 'node:path';
 const eejs = require('../../eejs')
 import fs from 'node:fs';
+import os from 'node:os';
 const fsp = fs.promises;
 const toolbar = require('../../utils/toolbar');
 const hooks = require('../../../static/js/pluginfw/hooks');
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ const convertTypescript = (content: string) => {
   const outputRaw = buildSync({
     stdin: {
       contents: content,
-      resolveDir: path.join(settings.root, 'var','js'),
+      resolveDir: settings.root,
       loader: 'js'
     },
     alias:{
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ const convertTypescriptWatched = (content: string, cb: (output:string, hash: str
   build({
     stdin: {
       contents: content,
-      resolveDir: path.join(settings.root, 'var','js'),
+      resolveDir: settings.root,
       loader: 'js'
     },
     alias:{
@@ -276,10 +277,8 @@ exports.expressCreateServer = async (hookName: string, args: ArgsExpressType, cb
       settings,
     })
 
-
-
-  const outdir = path.join(settings.root, 'var','js')
-  // Create the outdir if it doesn't exist
+  // Create a temporary directory to store runtime-built JS files
+  const outdir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'js');
   if (!fs.existsSync(outdir)) {
     fs.mkdirSync(outdir);
   }
diff --git a/var/js/.gitignore b/var/js/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 086f4e283..000000000
--- a/var/js/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-*.js
-*.map