diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index f765d0a..323f59a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev
       - uses: actions/cache@v3
         with:
           path: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index c424d39..a71f331 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ jobs:
           --health-retries 50
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Install system dependencies
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get update
+        sudo apt-get install -y libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev
     - uses: actions/cache@v3
       with:
         path: |
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5ce6901..6552061 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "stellar-xdr",
  "strsim",
  "symlink",
+ "tempfile",
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/loam-cli/Cargo.toml
index ccd9bd4..c6cd702 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -69,11 +69,12 @@ rust-embed = { version = "8.2.0", features = ["debug-embed"] }
 regex = "1.10.5"
 toml_edit = "0.22.16"
 indexmap = { version = "1.9", features = ["serde"] }
+tempfile = "3.8"
+fs_extra = "1.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_cmd = "2.0.4"
 assert_fs = "1.0.7"
-fs_extra = "1.3.0"
 predicates = "3.1.0"
 walkdir = "2.3"
 
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/build/env_toml.rs b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/build/env_toml.rs
index 440db62..1cf9ae0 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/build/env_toml.rs
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/build/env_toml.rs
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ impl Environment {
         let current_env = parsed_toml.remove(loam_env);
         if current_env.is_none() {
             return Err(Error::NoSettingsForCurrentEnv(loam_env.to_string()));
-        };
+        }
         Ok(current_env)
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/init.rs b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/init.rs
index aff1a4d..3b6b673 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/init.rs
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/init.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ use clap::Parser;
 use rust_embed::{EmbeddedFile, RustEmbed};
 use soroban_cli::commands::contract::init as soroban_init;
 use std::{
-    fs::{self, create_dir_all, metadata, read_to_string, remove_dir_all, write, Metadata},
+    fs::{self, create_dir_all, metadata, read_to_string, write, Metadata},
     io,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
+    process::Command,
 };
+use tempfile::TempDir;
 use toml_edit::{DocumentMut, TomlError};
 
 const FRONTEND_TEMPLATE: &str = "https://github.com/loambuild/frontend";
@@ -38,6 +40,10 @@ pub enum Error {
     ConverBytesToStringErr(#[from] std::str::Utf8Error),
     #[error("Failed to parse toml file: {0}")]
     TomlParseError(#[from] TomlError),
+    #[error("Failed to copy frontend files: {0}")]
+    FrontendCopyError(String),
+    #[error("Git clone failed: {0}")]
+    GitCloneError(String),
 }
 
 impl Cmd {
@@ -58,17 +64,20 @@ impl Cmd {
             project_path: self.project_path.to_string_lossy().to_string(),
             name: self.name.clone(),
             with_example: None,
-            frontend_template: Some(FRONTEND_TEMPLATE.to_string()),
             overwrite: true,
+            frontend_template: None,
         }
         .run(&soroban_cli::commands::global::Args::default())?;
 
-        // remove soroban hello_world default contract
-        remove_dir_all(self.project_path.join("contracts/hello_world/")).map_err(|e| {
-            eprintln!("Error removing directory");
-            e
+        // Clone frontend template
+        let fe_template_dir = tempfile::tempdir().map_err(|e| {
+            eprintln!("Error creating temp dir for frontend template");
+            Error::IoError(e)
         })?;
 
+        clone_repo(FRONTEND_TEMPLATE, fe_template_dir.path())?;
+        copy_frontend_files(&fe_template_dir, &self.project_path)?;
+
         copy_example_contracts(&self.project_path)?;
         rename_cargo_toml_remove(&self.project_path, "core")?;
         rename_cargo_toml_remove(&self.project_path, "status_message")?;
@@ -160,7 +169,6 @@ fn copy_file(
     Ok(())
 }
 
-// TODO: import from stellar-cli init (not currently pub there)
 fn file_exists(file_path: &Path) -> bool {
     metadata(file_path)
         .as_ref()
@@ -175,3 +183,28 @@ fn rename_cargo_toml_remove(project: &Path, name: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
     fs::rename(from, to)?;
     Ok(())
 }
+
+fn clone_repo(repo_url: &str, dest: &Path) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let status = Command::new("git")
+        .args(["clone", repo_url, dest.to_str().unwrap()])
+        .status()
+        .map_err(|e| Error::GitCloneError(format!("Failed to execute git clone: {e}")))?;
+
+    if !status.success() {
+        return Err(Error::GitCloneError("Git clone command failed".to_string()));
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn copy_frontend_files(temp_dir: &TempDir, project_path: &Path) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    fs_extra::dir::copy(
+        temp_dir.path(),
+        project_path,
+        &fs_extra::dir::CopyOptions::new()
+            .content_only(true)
+            .overwrite(true),
+    )
+    .map_err(|e| Error::FrontendCopyError(e.to_string()))?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/mod.rs b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/mod.rs
index 72c664a..63cb024 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/src/commands/mod.rs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ impl Root {
             Cmd::Build(build_info) => build_info.run().await?,
             Cmd::UpdateEnv(e) => e.run()?,
             Cmd::Dev(dev_info) => dev_info.run().await?,
-        };
+        }
         Ok(())
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/unit.rs b/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/unit.rs
index 01ba7d5..4bf569a 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/unit.rs
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/unit.rs
@@ -73,3 +73,35 @@ soroban_token_contract.client = false
         assert!(stderr.contains("🌐 using network at http://localhost:8000/rpc\n"));
     });
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn init_copies_contracts_and_frontend_template() {
+    let env = TestEnv::new_empty();
+
+    // Run loam init with project path
+    let project_path = env.cwd.join("my-project");
+    env.loam("init")
+        .args([project_path.to_str().unwrap()])
+        .assert()
+        .success();
+    // Verify contract files exist
+    assert!(project_path.join("contracts/core/src/lib.rs").exists());
+    assert!(project_path
+        .join("contracts/status_message/src/lib.rs")
+        .exists());
+    assert!(project_path.join("contracts/core/Cargo.toml").exists());
+    assert!(project_path
+        .join("contracts/status_message/Cargo.toml")
+        .exists());
+
+    // Verify frontend template files exist
+    assert!(project_path.join("package.json").exists());
+    assert!(project_path.join("src").exists());
+    assert!(project_path.join("tsconfig.json").exists());
+
+    // Verify Cargo.toml contains loam dependencies
+    let cargo_toml = std::fs::read_to_string(project_path.join("Cargo.toml"))
+        .expect("Should be able to read Cargo.toml");
+    assert!(cargo_toml.contains("loam-sdk"));
+    assert!(cargo_toml.contains("loam-subcontract-core"));
+}
diff --git a/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/util.rs b/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/util.rs
index e6c97d4..6e39fda 100644
--- a/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/util.rs
+++ b/crates/loam-cli/tests/it/util.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ impl TestEnv {
         }
     }
 
+    pub fn new_empty() -> Self {
+        let temp_dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        Self {
+            cwd: temp_dir.path().to_path_buf(),
+            temp_dir,
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn from<F: FnOnce(&TestEnv)>(template: &str, f: F) {
         let test_env = TestEnv::new(template);
         f(&test_env);
diff --git a/examples/soroban/simple_account/src/subcontract.rs b/examples/soroban/simple_account/src/subcontract.rs
index fb3f869..e2c466a 100644
--- a/examples/soroban/simple_account/src/subcontract.rs
+++ b/examples/soroban/simple_account/src/subcontract.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ impl IsSimpleAccount for SimpleAccountManager {
     fn init(&mut self, public_key: BytesN<32>) -> Result<(), Error> {
         if self.owner.get().is_some() {
             return Err(Error::OwnerAlreadySet);
-        };
+        }
         self.owner.set(&public_key);
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index fb7d806..0c1fc69 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ path:
     just --list
 
 loam +args:
-    @cargo r -- {{args}}
+    @cargo r {{args}}
 
 s +args:
     @stellar {{args}}
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ test-integration: build-cli-test-contracts
 
 create: build
     rm -rf .soroban
-    stellar keys generate default
-    just stellar contract deploy --wasm ./target/loam/example_core.wasm --alias core
+    -stellar keys generate default
+    just stellar contract deploy --wasm ./target/loam/example_core.wasm --alias core --source-account default -- --admin default
 
 # # Builds contracts. Deploys core subcontract and then redeploys to status message.