diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 2b1392eaf4..7b2d7c188a 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ const Rx = require('rx'),
   webpackDevMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware'),
   webpackHotMiddleware = require('webpack-hot-middleware'),
   webpackConfig = require('./webpack.config.js'),
-  webpackFrameConfig = require('./webpack.frame-runner.js'),
 
   // server process
   nodemon = require('gulp-nodemon'),
@@ -247,7 +246,7 @@ gulp.task('dev-server', syncDepenedents, function() {
 });
 
 gulp.task('pack-client', function() {
-  if (!__DEV__) { console.log('\n\nbundling production\n\n'); }
+  if (!__DEV__) { console.log('\n\nbundling www - production\n\n'); }
 
   const dest = webpackConfig.output.path;
 
@@ -257,18 +256,6 @@ gulp.task('pack-client', function() {
     .pipe(gulp.dest(dest));
 });
 
-gulp.task('pack-frame-runner', function() {
-  if (!__DEV__) { console.log('\n\nbundling frame production\n\n'); }
-
-
-  const dest = webpackFrameConfig.output.path;
-
-  return gulp.src(webpackFrameConfig.entry)
-    .pipe(plumber({ errorHandler }))
-    .pipe(webpackStream(webpackFrameConfig))
-    .pipe(gulp.dest(dest));
-});
-
 const webpackManifestFiles = [ 'react-manifest.json', 'chunk-manifest.json' ];
 gulp.task('move-webpack-manifest', ['pack-client'], function() {
   const files = webpackManifestFiles.map(function(filename) {
@@ -404,7 +391,6 @@ gulp.task('build', [
   'less',
   'js',
   'pack-client',
-  'pack-frame-runner',
   'move-webpack-manifest',
   'clean-webpack-manifest',
   'build-manifest',
@@ -415,14 +401,12 @@ const watchDependents = [
   'less',
   'js',
   'serve',
-  'pack-frame-runner',
   'dev-server'
 ];
 
 gulp.task('watch', watchDependents, function() {
   gulp.watch(paths.lessFiles, ['less']);
   gulp.watch(paths.vendorChallenges, ['js']);
-  gulp.watch(webpackFrameConfig.entry, ['pack-frame-runner']);
 });
 
 gulp.task('default', [
@@ -430,6 +414,5 @@ gulp.task('default', [
   'serve',
   'watch',
   'dev-server',
-  'pack-frame-runner',
   'generate-migration-map'
 ]);
diff --git a/webpack.frame-runner.js b/webpack.frame-runner.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b9830f01c..0000000000
--- a/webpack.frame-runner.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-const webpack = require('webpack');
-const path = require('path');
-const UglifyPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin');
-
-const __DEV__ = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';
-
-module.exports = {
-  entry: './client/frame-runner.js',
-  devtool: __DEV__ ? 'inline-source-map' : 'source-map',
-  node: {
-    // Mock Node.js modules that Babel require()s but that we don't
-    // particularly care about.
-    fs: 'empty',
-    module: 'empty',
-    net: 'empty'
-  },
-  output: {
-    filename: __DEV__ ? 'frame-runner.js' : 'frame-runner-[hash].js',
-    path: path.join(__dirname, '/public/js'),
-    publicPath: '/js'
-  },
-  stats: {
-    // Examine all modules
-    maxModules: Infinity,
-    // Display bailout reasons
-    optimizationBailout: true
-  },
-  module: {
-    rules: [{
-      test: /\.jsx?$/,
-      include: [ path.join(__dirname, 'client/') ],
-      use: {
-        loader: 'babel-loader',
-        options: {
-          babelrc: false,
-          presets: [
-            [ 'es2015', { modules: false }],
-            [ 'stage-3' ]
-          ],
-          plugins: [
-            'transform-runtime',
-            'lodash'
-          ]
-        }
-      }
-    }]
-  },
-  externals: {
-    rx: 'Rx'
-  },
-  plugins: [
-    new webpack.DefinePlugin({
-      'process.env': {
-        NODE_ENV: JSON.stringify(__DEV__ ? 'development' : 'production')
-      },
-      __DEVTOOLS__: !__DEV__
-    }),
-    // Use browser version of visionmedia-debug
-    new webpack.NormalModuleReplacementPlugin(
-      /debug\/node/,
-      'debug/src/browser'
-    ),
-    new webpack.optimize.ModuleConcatenationPlugin()
-  ]
-};
-
-if (__DEV__) {
-  module.exports.plugins.push(
-    // prevents build on error
-    new webpack.NoEmitOnErrorsPlugin()
-  );
-} else {
-  module.exports.plugins.push(
-    new UglifyPlugin({
-      test: /\.js($|\?)/i,
-      cache: true,
-      sourceMap: true
-    })
-  );
-}