diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-website.yml b/.github/workflows/test-website.yml
index 9efab7f2..832085c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-website.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-website.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ jobs:
            curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/japonicusdb/japonicus-config/main/japonicus_site_config.json
            (cd /tmp/; curl -O -L https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/2.8/pandoc-2.8-1-amd64.deb; sudo dpkg -i pandoc-2.8-1-amd64.deb)
            yarn
-           ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng --version
 
       - name: Test
         run: |
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ jobs:
            ./create_jbrowse_track_list.pl trackListTemplate.json pombase_jbrowse_track_metadata.csv /dev/null /dev/null ./minimal_jbrowse_track_list.json && \
            curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pombase/pombase-config/master/website/pombase_v2_config.json > main_config.json && \
            echo generating doc files: && \
+           ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng --version && \
            ./etc/update_generated_files.sh main_config.json data_files && node --max_old_space_size=8000 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng build --no-progress && \
            echo checking for broken links in PomBase docs: && \
            ./etc/check_docs_broken_links.pl main_config.json src/docs src/assets && \