diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-jsx.yml b/.github/workflows/test-jsx.yml
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@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# This is a GitHub workflow defining a set of jobs with a set of steps.
+# ref: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
+#
+name: Test jsx (admin-react.js)
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "jsx/**"
+      - ".github/workflows/test-jsx.yml"
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "jsx/**"
+      - ".github/workflows/test-jsx.yml"
+    branches-ignore:
+      - "dependabot/**"
+      - "pre-commit-ci-update-config"
+    tags:
+      - "**"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  # The ./jsx folder contains React based source code files that are to compile
+  # to share/jupyterhub/static/js/admin-react.js. The ./jsx folder includes
+  # tests also has tests that this job is meant to run with `yarn test`
+  # according to the documentation in jsx/README.md.
+  test-jsx-admin-react:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        with:
+          node-version: "14"
+
+      - name: Install yarn
+        run: |
+          npm install -g yarn
+
+      - name: yarn
+        run: |
+          cd jsx
+          yarn
+
+      - name: yarn test
+        run: |
+          cd jsx
+          yarn test
+
+  # The ./jsx folder contains React based source files that are to compile to
+  # share/jupyterhub/static/js/admin-react.js. This job makes sure that whatever
+  # we have in jsx/src matches the compiled asset that we package and
+  # distribute.
+  #
+  # This job's purpose is to make sure we don't forget to compile changes and to
+  # verify nobody sneaks in a change in the hard to review compiled asset.
+  #
+  # NOTE: In the future we may want to stop version controlling the compiled
+  #       artifact and instead generate it whenever we package JupyterHub. If we
+  #       do this, we are required to setup node and compile the source code
+  #       more often, at the same time we could avoid having this check be made.
+  #
+  compile-jsx-admin-react:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        with:
+          node-version: "14"
+
+      - name: Install yarn
+        run: |
+          npm install -g yarn
+
+      - name: yarn
+        run: |
+          cd jsx
+          yarn
+
+      - name: yarn build
+        run: |
+          cd jsx
+          yarn build
+
+      - name: yarn place
+        run: |
+          cd jsx
+          yarn place
+
+      - name: Verify compiled jsx/src matches version controlled artifact
+        run: |
+          if [[ `git status --porcelain=v1` ]]; then
+              echo "The source code in ./jsx compiles to something different than found in ./share/jupyterhub/static/js/admin-react.js!"
+              echo
+              echo "Please re-compile the source code in ./jsx with the following commands:"
+              echo
+              echo "yarn"
+              echo "yarn build"
+              echo "yarn place"
+              echo
+              echo "See ./jsx/README.md for more details."
+              exit 1
+          else
+              echo "Compilation of jsx/src to share/jupyterhub/static/js/admin-react.js didn't lead to changes."
+          fi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 9463184e..e68eb45b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -31,33 +31,6 @@ env:
   PYTEST_ADDOPTS: "--verbose --color=yes"
 
 jobs:
-  jstest:
-    # Run javascript tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    timeout-minutes: 5
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      # NOTE: actions/setup-node@v1 make use of a cache within the GitHub base
-      #       environment and setup in a fraction of a second.
-      - name: Install Node
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
-        with:
-          node-version: "14"
-
-      - name: Install Node dependencies
-        run: |
-          npm install -g yarn
-
-      - name: Run yarn
-        run: |
-          cd jsx
-          yarn
-
-      - name: yarn test
-        run: |
-          cd jsx
-          yarn test
-
   # Run "pytest jupyterhub/tests" in various configurations
   pytest:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04