diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 574976f6d..1e21c43f3 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ steps:
   - name: checks-backend
     image: golang:1.19
     commands:
-      - make checks-backend
+      - make --always-make checks-backend # ensure the 'go-licenses' make target runs
     depends_on: [deps-backend]
     volumes:
       - name: deps
@@ -112,16 +112,11 @@ steps:
       - make test-frontend
     depends_on: [lint-frontend]
 
-  - name: generate-frontend
-    image: golang:1.19
-    commands:
-      - make generate-frontend
-
   - name: build-frontend
     image: node:18
     commands:
       - make frontend
-    depends_on: [deps-frontend, generate-frontend]
+    depends_on: [deps-frontend]
 
   - name: build-backend-no-gcc
     image: golang:1.18 # this step is kept as the lowest version of golang that we support
@@ -549,16 +544,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - make deps-frontend
 
-  - name: generate-frontend
-    image: golang:1.18
-    commands:
-      - make generate-frontend
-
   - name: build-frontend
     image: node:18
     commands:
       - make frontend
-    depends_on: [deps-frontend, generate-frontend]
+    depends_on: [deps-frontend]
 
   - name: deps-backend
     image: golang:1.18
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index bb2783b0a..34482b9e8 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 * text=auto eol=lf
 *.tmpl linguist-language=Handlebars
+/assets/*.json linguist-generated
 /public/vendor/** -text -eol linguist-vendored
 /vendor/** -text -eol linguist-vendored
 /web_src/fomantic/build/** linguist-generated
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0456d4a05..982827575 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ unit-test-coverage:
 tidy:
 	$(eval MIN_GO_VERSION := $(shell grep -Eo '^go\s+[0-9]+\.[0-9.]+' go.mod | cut -d' ' -f2))
 	$(GO) mod tidy -compat=$(MIN_GO_VERSION)
+	@$(MAKE) --no-print-directory $(GO_LICENSE_FILE)
 
 vendor: go.mod go.sum
 	$(GO) mod vendor
@@ -413,7 +414,7 @@ vendor: go.mod go.sum
 
 .PHONY: tidy-check
 tidy-check: tidy
-	@diff=$$(git diff go.mod go.sum); \
+	@diff=$$(git diff go.mod go.sum $(GO_LICENSE_FILE)); \
 	if [ -n "$$diff" ]; then \
 		echo "Please run 'make tidy' and commit the result:"; \
 		echo "$${diff}"; \
@@ -709,17 +710,14 @@ install: $(wildcard *.go)
 build: frontend backend
 
 .PHONY: frontend
-frontend: generate-frontend $(WEBPACK_DEST)
+frontend: $(WEBPACK_DEST)
 
 .PHONY: backend
 backend: go-check generate-backend $(EXECUTABLE)
 
 # We generate the backend before the frontend in case we in future we want to generate things in the frontend from generated files in backend
 .PHONY: generate
-generate: generate-backend generate-frontend
-
-.PHONY: generate-frontend
-generate-frontend: $(GO_LICENSE_FILE)
+generate: generate-backend
 
 .PHONY: generate-backend
 generate-backend: $(TAGS_PREREQ) generate-go