diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/mealie-frontend.nix b/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/mealie-frontend.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b3359fb64271..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/mealie-frontend.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-src: version:
-{
-  lib,
-  fetchYarnDeps,
-  dart-sass,
-  nodejs,
-  fixup-yarn-lock,
-  stdenv,
-  yarn,
-  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
-}:
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "mealie-frontend";
-  inherit version;
-  src = "${src}/frontend";
-
-  yarnOfflineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
-    yarnLock = "${src}/frontend/yarn.lock";
-    hash = "sha256-F1dhdBHfT9N1Ejk7WLyz2BbKlTPfqqEDNi7ZTL3phWY=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    fixup-yarn-lock
-    nodejs
-    (yarn.override { inherit nodejs; })
-    writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
-    dart-sass
-  ];
-
-  configurePhase = ''
-    runHook preConfigure
-
-    sed -i 's+"@nuxt/fonts",+// NUXT FONTS DISABLED+g' nuxt.config.ts
-
-    yarn config --offline set yarn-offline-mirror "$yarnOfflineCache"
-    fixup-yarn-lock yarn.lock
-    yarn install --offline --frozen-lockfile --no-progress --non-interactive --ignore-scripts
-    patchShebangs node_modules
-
-    substituteInPlace node_modules/sass-embedded/dist/lib/src/compiler-path.js \
-      --replace-fail 'compilerCommand = (() => {' 'compilerCommand = (() => { return ["dart-sass"];'
-
-    runHook postConfigure
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    runHook preBuild
-
-    export NUXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
-    yarn --offline generate
-    runHook postBuild
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-    mv .output/public $out
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Frontend for Mealie";
-    license = lib.licenses.agpl3Only;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
-      litchipi
-      esch
-    ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/package.nix
index 765822f5dfa9..48a7a30fa2d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/me/mealie/package.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 {
   lib,
-  pkgs,
-  callPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   makeWrapper,
   nixosTests,
@@ -9,6 +7,15 @@
   nltk-data,
   writeShellScript,
   nix-update-script,
+
+  # frontend
+  fetchYarnDeps,
+  dart-sass,
+  nodejs,
+  fixup-yarn-lock,
+  stdenv,
+  yarn,
+  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
 }:
 
 let
@@ -20,7 +27,63 @@ let
     hash = "sha256-DUwLCe221MQb6AEYNxNDWXoaEdf9q/dNklOXJncnnJ4=";
   };
 
-  frontend = callPackage (import ./mealie-frontend.nix src version) { };
+  frontend = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "mealie-frontend";
+    inherit version;
+    src = "${src}/frontend";
+
+    yarnOfflineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
+      yarnLock = "${src}/frontend/yarn.lock";
+      hash = "sha256-F1dhdBHfT9N1Ejk7WLyz2BbKlTPfqqEDNi7ZTL3phWY=";
+    };
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [
+      fixup-yarn-lock
+      nodejs
+      (yarn.override { inherit nodejs; })
+      writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
+      dart-sass
+    ];
+
+    configurePhase = ''
+      runHook preConfigure
+
+      sed -i 's+"@nuxt/fonts",+// NUXT FONTS DISABLED+g' nuxt.config.ts
+
+      yarn config --offline set yarn-offline-mirror "$yarnOfflineCache"
+      fixup-yarn-lock yarn.lock
+      yarn install --offline --frozen-lockfile --no-progress --non-interactive --ignore-scripts
+      patchShebangs node_modules
+
+      substituteInPlace node_modules/sass-embedded/dist/lib/src/compiler-path.js \
+        --replace-fail 'compilerCommand = (() => {' 'compilerCommand = (() => { return ["dart-sass"];'
+
+      runHook postConfigure
+    '';
+
+    buildPhase = ''
+      runHook preBuild
+
+      export NUXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
+      yarn --offline generate
+      runHook postBuild
+    '';
+
+    installPhase = ''
+      runHook preInstall
+      mv .output/public $out
+      runHook postInstall
+    '';
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "Frontend for Mealie";
+      license = lib.licenses.agpl3Only;
+      maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+        litchipi
+        esch
+      ];
+    };
+  };
 
   python = python3;
   pythonpkgs = python.pkgs;