diff --git a/bin/blt b/bin/blt
index 1c87f57ea..0218afc6d 100755
--- a/bin/blt
+++ b/bin/blt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ $robo_namespaces = [
   'ci',
   'custom',
   'drupal',
+  'frontend',
   'setup',
   'tests',
   'vm',
diff --git a/phing/build.xml b/phing/build.xml
index 479d7561a..7bdfd1bbb 100644
--- a/phing/build.xml
+++ b/phing/build.xml
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@
   <!-- E.g., commit build artifacts, push to remote. -->
   <import file="${phing.dir}/tasks/deploy.xml"/>
 
-  <!-- Contains frontend tasks. -->
-  <import file="${phing.dir}/tasks/frontend.xml"/>
-
   <!-- Contains local syncing tasks. -->
   <import file="${phing.dir}/tasks/local-sync.xml"/>
 
diff --git a/phing/tasks/deploy.xml b/phing/tasks/deploy.xml
index 57731ed0d..adc13d4d1 100644
--- a/phing/tasks/deploy.xml
+++ b/phing/tasks/deploy.xml
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
 
   <target name="deploy:build" description="Generates a deploy-ready build in deploy.dir.">
 
-    <phingcall target="frontend"/>
+    <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="${composer.bin}/blt frontend" logoutput="true" checkreturn="true" passthru="true" />
     <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="${composer.bin}/blt setup:hash-salt" logoutput="true" checkreturn="true"/>
     <phingcall target="deploy:copy"/>
     <phingcall target="deploy:composer:install"/>
diff --git a/phing/tasks/frontend.xml b/phing/tasks/frontend.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index cdb221294..000000000
--- a/phing/tasks/frontend.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-<project name="frontend" default="frontend">
-
-  <target name="frontend" description="Runs all frontend targets"
-          depends="frontend:setup, frontend:build">
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="frontend:setup" description="Uses project.yml hooks to run custom defined commands to setup front end dependencies for frontend:build." hidden="true">
-    <phingcall target="target-hook:invoke">
-      <property name="hook-name" value="frontend-setup"/>
-    </phingcall>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="frontend:build" description="Uses project.yml hooks to run custom defined commands to build front end dependencies for custom themes." hidden="true">
-    <phingcall target="target-hook:invoke">
-      <property name="hook-name" value="frontend-build"/>
-    </phingcall>
-  </target>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/readme/testing.md b/readme/testing.md
index ca885c550..04a9bbfe9 100644
--- a/readme/testing.md
+++ b/readme/testing.md
@@ -169,3 +169,12 @@ Project level, functional PHPUnit tests are included in `tests/phpunit`. Any PHP
 * [Test Driven Development: By Example (book)](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321146530)
 * [xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code (book for the really serious)](http://amazon.com/dp/0131495054)
 * [Unit testing: Why bother?](http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/unit-testing-why-bother/)
+
+
+## Frontend Testing
+
+BLT supports a `frontend-test` target that can be used to execute a variety of testing frameworks. Examples may include Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, Chai, etc.
+
+### Configuration
+
+You can [customize the configuration values](extending-blt.md#modifying-blt-configuration) for the `frontend-test` key to enable this capability of BLT.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Robo/Commands/Frontend/FrontendCommand.php b/src/Robo/Commands/Frontend/FrontendCommand.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c8d7c136f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Robo/Commands/Frontend/FrontendCommand.php
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Acquia\Blt\Robo\Commands\Frontend;
+
+use Acquia\Blt\Robo\BltTasks;
+
+/**
+ * Defines commands in the "frontend:*" namespace.
+ */
+class FrontendCommand extends BltTasks {
+
+  /**
+   * Runs all frontend targets
+   *
+   * @command frontend
+   */
+  public function frontend() {
+    $this->say("Running frontend tasks...");
+    $status_code = $this->invokeCommands([
+      'frontend:build',
+      'frontend:setup',
+      'frontend:test',
+    ]);
+    return $status_code;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Uses project.yml hooks to run custom defined commands to
+   * build front end dependencies for custom themes.
+   *
+   * @command frontend:build
+   */
+  public function build() {
+    $this->invokeHook('frontend-build');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Uses project.yml hooks to run custom defined commands to
+   * setup front end dependencies for frontend:build.
+   *
+   * @command frontend:setup
+   */
+  public function setup() {
+    $this->invokeHook('frontend-setup');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Uses project.yml hooks to run tests for the frontend as
+   *
+   * @command frontend:test
+   */
+  public function test() {
+    $this->invokeHook('frontend-test');
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/template/blt/project.yml b/template/blt/project.yml
index 9fb50acfb..acc31a030 100644
--- a/template/blt/project.yml
+++ b/template/blt/project.yml
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ target-hooks:
     dir: ${docroot}
     # E.g., `npm run build`.
     command: echo 'No frontend-build configured.'
+  frontend-test:
+      # E.g., ${docroot}/sites/all/themes/custom/mytheme.
+      dir: ${docroot}
+      # E.g., `npm test`.
+      command: echo 'No frontend-tests configured.'
   # Executed before configuration is imported.
   pre-config-import:
     dir: ${docroot}