diff --git a/apps/frontend/package.json b/apps/frontend/package.json
index ae5f90e7..080f0624 100644
--- a/apps/frontend/package.json
+++ b/apps/frontend/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",
-    "build": "tsc -b && vite build",
+    "build": "tsc -b tsconfig.app.json tsconfig.node.json && vite build",
     "preview": "vite preview",
     "lint": "eslint .",
     "typecheck": "tsc -b --noEmit",
diff --git a/apps/frontend/tsconfig.app.json b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.app.json
index 45567d14..7a1854d3 100644
--- a/apps/frontend/tsconfig.app.json
+++ b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.app.json
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "paths": {
       "@/*": ["./src/*"]
     },
-    "types": ["vite/client", "vitest/globals", "@testing-library/jest-dom"]
+    "types": ["vite/client"]
   },
-  "include": ["src", "tests"]
+  "include": ["src"]
 }
diff --git a/apps/frontend/tsconfig.json b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.json
index 1ffef600..32fef050 100644
--- a/apps/frontend/tsconfig.json
+++ b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.json
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "files": [],
   "references": [
     { "path": "./tsconfig.app.json" },
-    { "path": "./tsconfig.node.json" }
+    { "path": "./tsconfig.node.json" },
+    { "path": "./tsconfig.spec.json" }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/apps/frontend/tsconfig.spec.json b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.spec.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..418d3582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/frontend/tsconfig.spec.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+  // Test-only TypeScript project. Split out of tsconfig.app.json so the
+  // PRODUCTION image build (`npm run build` -> `tsc -b tsconfig.app.json ...`)
+  // never type-checks tests: the contract tests import shared catalogs from
+  // the REPO ROOT (e.g. ../../tests/contracts/*.json), which does not exist
+  // inside the Docker build context (apps/frontend only) and broke the
+  // v0.11.0 trusca-frontend image build. CI's `npm run typecheck`
+  // (`tsc -b --noEmit`) still builds every referenced project, tests included.
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "composite": true,
+    "tsBuildInfoFile": "./node_modules/.tmp/tsconfig.spec.tsbuildinfo",
+    "target": "ES2022",
+    "useDefineForClassFields": true,
+    "lib": ["ES2022", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable"],
+    "module": "ESNext",
+    "skipLibCheck": true,
+    "moduleResolution": "bundler",
+    "allowImportingTsExtensions": true,
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
+    "isolatedModules": true,
+    "moduleDetection": "force",
+    "noEmit": true,
+    "jsx": "react-jsx",
+    "strict": true,
+    "noUnusedLocals": true,
+    "noUnusedParameters": true,
+    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
+    "noUncheckedSideEffectImports": true,
+    "baseUrl": ".",
+    "paths": {
+      "@/*": ["./src/*"]
+    },
+    "types": ["vite/client", "vitest/globals", "@testing-library/jest-dom"]
+  },
+  "include": ["src", "tests"]
+}