diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 68ecae92b8bd..d6f67986528e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ jobs:
             'standard-frontend-react',
             'standard-frontend-react-tracing-import',
             'sveltekit',
+            'generic-ts3.8',
           ]
         build-command:
           - false
diff --git a/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/.npmrc b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/.npmrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c6b3ef9b3eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/.npmrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+@sentry:registry=http://localhost:4873
+@sentry-internal:registry=http://localhost:4873
diff --git a/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/index.ts b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..823bd62fe09c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars */
+// we need to import the SDK to ensure tsc check the types
+import * as _SentryBrowser from '@sentry/browser';
+import * as _SentryCore from '@sentry/core';
+import * as _SentryHub from '@sentry/hub';
+import * as _SentryIntegrations from '@sentry/integrations';
+import * as _SentryNode from '@sentry/node';
+import * as _SentryOpentelemetry from '@sentry/opentelemetry-node';
+import * as _SentryReplay from '@sentry/replay';
+import * as _SentryTracing from '@sentry/tracing';
+import * as _SentryTypes from '@sentry/types';
+import * as _SentryUtils from '@sentry/utils';
+import * as _SentryWasm from '@sentry/wasm';
diff --git a/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/package.json b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd4a2b22544d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "name": "@sentry-internal/ts3.8-test",
+  "private": true,
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "scripts": {
+    "build:types": "pnpm run type-check",
+    "ts-version": "tsc --version",
+    "type-check": "tsc --project tsconfig.json",
+    "test:build": "pnpm install && pnpm run build:types",
+    "test:assert": "pnpm -v"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "typescript": "3.8.3"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@sentry/browser": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/core": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/hub": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/integrations": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/node": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/opentelemetry-node": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/replay": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/tracing": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/types": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/utils": "latest || *",
+    "@sentry/wasm": "latest || *"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/tsconfig.json b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..932aa58e0c9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/generic-ts3.8/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "include": ["index.ts"],
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "lib": ["es6", "DOM"],
+    "skipLibCheck": false,
+    "noEmit": true,
+    "types": [],
+    "target": "es6",
+    "moduleResolution": "node"
+  }
+}