diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/Libraries/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index c912533dd7d..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__tests__
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f9cc308e91..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Make sure we never publish ReactAndroid/build (Gradle output)
-# or ReactAndroid/.cxx (CMake output) to npm.
-# Those folders are huge (> 100MB)!
-/build/
-.cxx/
-# Exclude buck config/jars for third-party libraries
-src/main/third-party/
-# Exclude Android & JVM tests
-src/test/
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/external-artifacts/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/external-artifacts/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index a4154094f9a..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/external-artifacts/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Make sure we never publish the build and artifacts folders to npm.
-build/
-artifacts/
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index b6a87b32364..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Make sure we never publish the build folders to npm.
-build/
-.cxx/
diff --git a/packages/react-native/package.json b/packages/react-native/package.json
index 70a8c5ed430..e53c0ed6515 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-native/package.json
@@ -49,48 +49,61 @@
     "React",
     "!React/Fabric/RCTThirdPartyFabricComponentsProvider.*",
     "ReactAndroid",
+    "!ReactAndroid/.cxx",
+    "!ReactAndroid/build",
+    "!ReactAndroid/external-artifacts/artifacts",
+    "!ReactAndroid/external-artifacts/build",
+    "!ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/.cxx",
+    "!ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build",
+    "!ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party",
+    "!ReactAndroid/src/test",
     "ReactApple",
     "ReactCommon",
     "README.md",
     "rn-get-polyfills.js",
+    "scripts/bundle.js",
+    "scripts/cocoapods",
+    "scripts/codegen",
     "scripts/compose-source-maps.js",
     "scripts/find-node-for-xcode.sh",
-    "scripts/bundle.js",
     "scripts/generate-codegen-artifacts.js",
     "scripts/generate-provider-cli.js",
     "scripts/generate-specs-cli.js",
-    "scripts/codegen",
-    "!scripts/codegen/__tests__",
-    "!scripts/codegen/__test_fixtures__",
     "scripts/hermes/hermes-utils.js",
     "scripts/hermes/prepare-hermes-for-build.js",
     "scripts/ios-configure-glog.sh",
-    "scripts/xcode/ccache-clang++.sh",
-    "scripts/xcode/ccache-clang.sh",
-    "scripts/xcode/ccache.conf",
-    "scripts/xcode/with-environment.sh",
     "scripts/native_modules.rb",
     "scripts/node-binary.sh",
-    "scripts/packager.sh",
     "scripts/packager-reporter.js",
+    "scripts/packager.sh",
     "scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.rb",
     "scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh",
     "scripts/react_native_pods.rb",
-    "scripts/cocoapods",
-    "!scripts/cocoapods/__tests__",
     "scripts/react-native-xcode.sh",
+    "scripts/xcode/ccache-clang.sh",
+    "scripts/xcode/ccache-clang++.sh",
+    "scripts/xcode/ccache.conf",
+    "scripts/xcode/with-environment.sh",
     "sdks/.hermesversion",
     "sdks/hermes-engine",
     "sdks/hermesc",
     "settings.gradle.kts",
     "src",
+    "!src/private/testing",
     "template.config.js",
     "template",
     "!template/node_modules",
     "!template/package-lock.json",
     "!template/yarn.lock",
     "third-party-podspecs",
-    "types"
+    "types",
+    "!**/__docs__/**",
+    "!**/__fixtures__/**",
+    "!**/__flowtests__/**",
+    "!**/__mocks__/**",
+    "!**/__test_fixtures__/**",
+    "!**/__tests__/**",
+    "!**/__typetests__/**"
   ],
   "scripts": {
     "prepack": "node ./scripts/prepack.js",
diff --git a/packages/react-native/scripts/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/scripts/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f5224b2264..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/scripts/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Make sure we never publish __test__ folders (Gradle output)
-**/__*tests__/
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/src/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 0887251f94f..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/src/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-__tests__
-private/testing
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/devsupport/rndevtools/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/src/private/devsupport/rndevtools/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 309ce6dd4d6..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/devsupport/rndevtools/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__docs__
diff --git a/packages/react-native/types/.npmignore b/packages/react-native/types/.npmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 0480d436df5..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/types/.npmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__typetests__