diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 37d1e80..9393b74 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check that codegen output hasn't changed
         run: git diff --exit-code --quiet HEAD slick-additions-codegen/src/test/resources
 
+      - run: mkdir -p slick-additions-entity/.js/target
+
       - name: Compress target directories
         run: tar cf targets.tar target slick-additions-codegen/src/test/resources/target slick-additions-entity/.jvm/target slick-additions-entity/.js/target slick-additions-codegen/target project/target
 
diff --git a/ci.sbt b/ci.sbt
index b444f61..8d28713 100644
--- a/ci.sbt
+++ b/ci.sbt
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ inThisBuild(List(
           "git diff --exit-code --quiet HEAD slick-additions-codegen/src/test/resources"
         ),
         name = Some("Check that codegen output hasn't changed")
-      )
+      ),
+      WorkflowStep.Run(List("mkdir -p slick-additions-entity/.js/target"))
     ),
   githubWorkflowPublishTargetBranches := Seq(RefPredicate.StartsWith(Ref.Tag("v"))),
   githubWorkflowPublish               := Seq(