diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 00c682d7e5..941a252c68 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -83,12 +83,10 @@ If you're not using Docker for Mac, or Docker for Windows, you may need, or choo
 (host)$ pip install docker-compose
 ```
 
-#### Node and npm
+#### Frontend Development
 
-The AWX UI requires the following:
+See [the ui development documentation](awx/ui/README.md).
 
-- Node 8.x LTS
-- NPM 6.x LTS
 
 ### Build the environment
 
diff --git a/awx/ui/README.md b/awx/ui/README.md
index e86147e5fb..0152701bce 100644
--- a/awx/ui/README.md
+++ b/awx/ui/README.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ make ui-test-ci
 # run e2e tests - see awx/ui/test/e2e for more information
 npm --prefix awx/ui run e2e
 ```
+**Note**: Unit tests are run on your host machine and not in the development containers.
 
 ## Adding dependencies
 ```shell