diff --git a/backend/.gitignore b/backend/.gitignore
index 290bfb5dcf..582bd08f2c 100644
--- a/backend/.gitignore
+++ b/backend/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 target/
 .env
-v8.snap
 oauth.json
diff --git a/backend/build.rs b/backend/build.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dbaf88453..0000000000
--- a/backend/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-use std::fs::File;
-use std::io::Write;
-
-use deno_core::{JsRuntime, RuntimeOptions};
-
-fn main() {
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=Cargo.lock");
-
-    let options = RuntimeOptions {
-        will_snapshot: true,
-        ..Default::default()
-    };
-    let mut runtime = JsRuntime::new(options);
-
-    let mut snap = File::create("v8.snap").expect("can create snap file");
-    snap.write_all(&runtime.snapshot())
-        .expect("can write content to snap");
-}
diff --git a/backend/src/js_eval.rs b/backend/src/js_eval.rs
index 0d581166f0..751c402155 100644
--- a/backend/src/js_eval.rs
+++ b/backend/src/js_eval.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ pub async fn eval_timeout(
     timeout(
         std::time::Duration::from_millis(2000),
         tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
-            //            let buffer = include_bytes!("../v8.snap");
 
             let mut ops = vec![
                 // An op for summing an array of numbers
diff --git a/backend/v8.snap b/backend/v8.snap
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4213db10e7
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