diff --git a/frontend/next.config.mjs b/frontend/next.config.mjs
index ce62d0d..3b6279e 100644
--- a/frontend/next.config.mjs
+++ b/frontend/next.config.mjs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ const nextConfig =
         destination: 'http://localhost:8080/:path*' // Proxy to Backend
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  output: 'export' 
   };
 
 export default nextConfig;
diff --git a/nix/containers.nix b/nix/containers.nix
index 0e8ff68..d96c396 100644
--- a/nix/containers.nix
+++ b/nix/containers.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,19 @@
 { repoRoot, inputs, pkgs, lib, system }: let
 
-staticFilesDerivation = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "staticFiles";
-  src = ../generated;
-  unpackPhase = "true";
+frontendNpm = pkgs.buildNpmPackage rec {
+  name = "frontend";
+  src = ../frontend;
+  npmDepsHash = "sha256-Oz7pdTMJVgGj5rzjIMvDjaOV7JU+hYLHoSSb+OcJARk=";
+  npmPackFlags = [ "--ignore-scripts" ];
   installPhase = ''
-    ls -alh "$src"
-    mkdir -p "$out"
-    cp -r $src/html $out
-    ls -alh $out
+    mkdir -p $out/frontend
+    cp -r out/* $out/frontend
   '';
 };
 
-staticFiles = pkgs.buildEnv {
-  name = "staticFiles";
-  paths = [
-    # the actual payload we want
-    staticFilesDerivation
-    # allow interactivity with the image
-    pkgs.bashInteractive
-    pkgs.coreutils
-  ];
-  pathsToLink = [ "/html" "/bin" ];
-  extraOutputsToInstall = [ "/html" ];
+frontend = pkgs.buildEnv {
+  name = "frontend";
+  paths = [ frontendNpm ];
 };
 
 in rec {
@@ -40,7 +31,7 @@ in rec {
   #$ ./result/bin/copy-to dir:./tmp
   #
   # Now we can run the container (the tx is just some random I copied from the explorer)
-  #$ podman run --publish 8080:8080 --env WST_BLOCKFROST_TOKEN=REPLACE_ME_APIKEY dir:./tmp manage 76e2cfb0b087873ef50a3f709fa6ab3df21bdd5b67c1254837cc353613524251.0 start --static-files /html
+  #$ podman run --publish 8080:8080 --env WST_BLOCKFROST_TOKEN=REPLACE_ME_APIKEY dir:./tmp manage 76e2cfb0b087873ef50a3f709fa6ab3df21bdd5b67c1254837cc353613524251.0 start --static-files /frontend
   #
   # NOTE: To build the oci container image run:
   #
@@ -52,8 +43,9 @@ in rec {
       Entrypoint = lib.singleton (lib.getExe inputs.self.packages.wst-poc-cli);
     };
     layers = [
+      # npm-created data for frontend
       (inputs.n2c.packages.nix2container.buildLayer {
-        copyToRoot = [staticFiles];
+        copyToRoot = [frontend];
       })
     ];
   };