diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-testing-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-testing-deploy.yml
index 4d4aa42c13b..86633d0b3c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-testing-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-testing-deploy.yml
@@ -1439,42 +1439,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
 
-  unit-test-frontend:
-    needs: changes
-    if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.static-webserver == 'true' || github.event_name == 'push' }}
-    timeout-minutes: 18 # if this timeout gets too small, then split the tests
-    name: "[unit] frontend"
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        node: [14]
-        os: [ubuntu-22.04]
-      fail-fast: false
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: setup docker buildx
-        id: buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
-        with:
-          driver: docker-container
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4.0.4
-        with:
-          node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
-          cache: "npm"
-      - name: install uv
-        uses: yezz123/setup-uv@v4
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        id: cache-uv
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/uv
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ github.job }}-python-${{ matrix.python }}-uv
-      - name: show system version
-        run: ./ci/helpers/show_system_versions.bash
-      - name: install
-        run: ./ci/github/unit-testing/frontend.bash install
-      - name: test
-        run: ./ci/github/unit-testing/frontend.bash test
-
   unit-test-python-linting:
     needs: changes
     if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.anything-py == 'true' || github.event_name == 'push' }}
@@ -1927,7 +1891,6 @@ jobs:
         unit-test-director,
         unit-test-dynamic-sidecar,
         unit-test-efs-guardian,
-        unit-test-frontend,
         unit-test-models-library,
         unit-test-notifications-library,
         unit-test-osparc-gateway-server,
diff --git a/ci/github/unit-testing/frontend.bash b/ci/github/unit-testing/frontend.bash
deleted file mode 100755
index cffd77cf64a..00000000000
--- a/ci/github/unit-testing/frontend.bash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
-set -o errexit   # abort on nonzero exitstatus
-set -o nounset   # abort on unbound variable
-set -o pipefail  # don't hide errors within pipes
-IFS=$'\n\t'
-
-install() {
-    npm install
-    make -C services/static-webserver/client clean
-    npx eslint --version
-    make -C services/static-webserver/client info
-}
-
-test() {
-    echo "# Running Linter"
-    npm run linter
-
-    pushd services/static-webserver/client
-
-    echo "# Building build version"
-    make compile
-
-    echo "# Building source version"
-    make compile-dev flags=--machine-readable
-
-    echo "# Serving source version"
-    make serve-dev flags="--machine-readable --target=source --listen-port=8080" detached=test-server
-
-    #TODO: move this inside qx-kit container
-    echo "# Waiting for build to complete"
-    while ! nc -z localhost 8080; do
-        sleep 1 # wait for 10 second before check again
-    done
-
-    # FIXME: reports ERROR ReferenceError: URL is not defined. See https://github.com/ITISFoundation/osparc-simcore/issues/1071
-    ## node source-output/resource/qxl/testtapper/run.js --diag --verbose http://localhost:8080/testtapper
-    wget --spider http://localhost:8080/
-
-    make clean
-    popd
-
-    #TODO: no idea what is this doing... disabled at the moment since travis is supposed to do it as well
-
-    # # prepare documentation site ...
-    # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ITISFoundation/itisfoundation.github.io.git
-    # rm -rf itisfoundation.github.io/.git
-
-    # # if we have old cruft hanging around, we should remove all this will
-    # # only trigger once
-    # if [ -d itisfoundation.github.io/transpiled ]; then
-    #   rm -rf itisfoundation.github.io/*
-    # fi
-
-    # # add the default homepage
-    # cp -rp docs/webdocroot/* itisfoundation.github.io
-
-    # # add our build
-    # if [ -d services/static-webserver/client/build-output ]; then
-    #   rm -rf itisfoundation.github.io/frontend
-    #   cp -rp services/static-webserver/client/build-output itisfoundation.github.io/frontend
-    # fi
-}
-
-# Check if the function exists (bash specific)
-if declare -f "$1" > /dev/null
-then
-  # call arguments verbatim
-  "$@"
-else
-  # Show a helpful error
-  echo "'$1' is not a known function name" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi