diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 851d5d00..b601f987 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "constant-case": "^2.0.0",
-    "express": "^4.14.0",
     "force-array": "^3.1.0",
+    "hapi": "^16.1.0",
+    "inert": "^4.1.0",
     "inherits": "^2.0.3",
-    "locale": "^0.1.0",
     "lodash.find": "^4.6.0",
     "lodash.flatten": "^4.4.0",
     "lodash.get": "^4.4.2",
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
     "redux-promise-middleware": "^4.2.0",
     "redux-thunk": "^2.1.0",
     "reselect": "^2.5.4",
-    "st": "^1.2.0",
     "styled-components": "^1.2.1",
+    "understood": "^1.0.1",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.7"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/frontend/server/index.js b/frontend/server/index.js
index 3cace565..e1aa69b9 100644
--- a/frontend/server/index.js
+++ b/frontend/server/index.js
@@ -1,44 +1,71 @@
-const template = require('lodash.template');
-const locale = require('locale');
-const path = require('path');
-const express = require('express');
-const st = require('st');
-const fs = require('fs');
+'use strict';
 
-const app = express();
+const fs = require('fs');
+const hapi = require('hapi');
+const inert = require('inert');
+const path = require('path');
+const template = require('lodash.template');
+const understood = require('understood');
 
 const index = path.join(__dirname, './index.html');
 const html = template(fs.readFileSync(index, 'utf-8'));
 
-var mount = st({
-  path: path.join(__dirname, '../static'),
-  url: 'static/',
-  index: false,
-  dot: false,
-  passthrough: false,
-  gzip: true,
-  cors: false
-});
-
-app.use(mount);
-app.use(locale(require('./locales')));
-
-app.get('/*', (req, res, next) => {
-  const locale = (req.locale || '').toLowerCase();
-  const lang = locale.split(/\-/)[0];
-
-  res.header('Content-Type', 'text/html');
-
-  res.send(html({
-    locale,
-    lang
-  }));
-});
-
-app.listen(8000, (err, address) => {
-  if (err) {
-    throw err;
+const server = new hapi.Server({
+  connections: {
+    routes: {
+      files: {
+        relativeTo: path.join(__dirname, '../static')
+      }
+    }
   }
-
-  console.log('Server running at: http://localhost:8000');
 });
+server.connection({
+  port: process.env.PORT || 8000
+});
+
+server.register([
+  inert,
+  {
+    register: understood,
+    options: {
+      default: 'en-us', localesDir: path.join(__dirname, '../static/locales')
+    }
+  }],
+  (err) => {
+    if (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+
+    server.route({
+      method: 'GET',
+      path: '/static/{param*}',
+      handler: {
+        directory: {
+          path: '.',
+          redirectToSlash: true,
+          index: false
+        }
+      }
+    });
+
+    server.route({
+      method: '*', path: '/{param*}', handler: defaultHandler
+    });
+
+    server.start((err) => {
+      if (err) {
+        console.error(err);
+        process.exit(1);
+      }
+
+      console.log(`Server running at: http://localhost:${server.info.port}`);
+    });
+  });
+
+function defaultHandler(request, reply) {
+  const locales = (request.locale || '').toLowerCase().split(/\-/);
+  reply(html({
+    locale: locales[1], lang: locales[0]
+  }));
+}
diff --git a/frontend/server/locales.js b/frontend/server/locales.js
deleted file mode 100644
index d75eee7e..00000000
--- a/frontend/server/locales.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-const uniq = require('lodash.uniq');
-const fs = require('fs');
-const path = require('path');
-
-const files = fs.readdirSync(path.join(__dirname, '../static/locales'));
-
-module.exports = uniq(files.map((file) => {
-  return file.replace(/\.js$/, '');
-}).filter((file) => {
-  return file.match(/.*?-.*?/);
-}));