diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f6c99a9994..adf052c2ea 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
     "release:publish": "pnpm publish --recursive --tag latest",
     "release:publish:dry-run": "pnpm publish --recursive --tag latest --registry=\"http://localhost:4873/\"",
     "release:tag": "node scripts/releaseTag.mjs",
-    "docs:api": "rimraf --glob ./docs/pages/**/api-docs ./docs/pages/**/api && pnpm docs:api:build",
-    "docs:api:build": "tsx --tsconfig ./scripts/buildApiDocs/tsconfig.json ./scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts",
+    "docs:api": "tsx --tsconfig ./scripts/buildApiDocs/tsconfig.json ./scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts",
     "docs:build": "pnpm --filter docs build",
     "docs:deploy": "pnpm --filter docs run deploy",
     "docs:dev": "pnpm --filter docs dev",
diff --git a/scripts/buildApiDocs/buildReference.ts b/scripts/buildApiDocs/buildReference.ts
index 922c75ac6d..0c4bdc8210 100644
--- a/scripts/buildApiDocs/buildReference.ts
+++ b/scripts/buildApiDocs/buildReference.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const TEMP_PROP_DEFS_GLOB = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/temp/components/
 const TEMP_DESCRIPTIONS_GLOB = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/temp/translations/**/*.json');
 const COMMON_OVERRIDES_JSON = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/overrides/common.json');
 const OVERRIDES_GLOB = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/overrides/*.json');
+const GENERATED_GLOB = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/generated/*.json');
 const ORDER_JSON = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/order.json');
 const FINAL_DIR = join(process.cwd(), 'docs/reference/generated');
 
@@ -18,12 +19,26 @@ interface CommonOverrides {
   types: Record<string, string>;
 }
 
-export async function buildReference() {
-  if (existsSync(FINAL_DIR)) {
-    rmSync(FINAL_DIR, { recursive: true });
-  }
+export async function buildReference(grep: RegExp | null = null) {
+  if (grep == null) {
+    if (existsSync(FINAL_DIR)) {
+      rmSync(FINAL_DIR, { recursive: true });
+    }
+
+    mkdirSync(FINAL_DIR);
+  } else {
+    if (!existsSync(FINAL_DIR)) {
+      mkdirSync(FINAL_DIR);
+    }
+    // the targeted files are all lowercased
+    const caseInsensitiveGrep = new RegExp(grep, 'i');
 
-  mkdirSync(FINAL_DIR);
+    for (const pathname of globSync(GENERATED_GLOB)) {
+      if (caseInsensitiveGrep.test(pathname)) {
+        rmSync(pathname);
+      }
+    }
+  }
 
   const order: Record<string, string[]> = JSON.parse(readFileSync(ORDER_JSON, 'utf-8'));
 
diff --git a/scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts b/scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts
index 365387144d..d56c74f2d8 100644
--- a/scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts
+++ b/scripts/buildApiDocs/index.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ type CommandOptions = { grep?: string };
 async function run(argv: ArgumentsCamelCase<CommandOptions>) {
   const grep = argv.grep == null ? null : new RegExp(argv.grep);
   await buildApi([projectSettings], grep, true);
-  await buildReference();
+  await buildReference(grep);
 }
 
 yargs(process.argv.slice(2))