diff --git a/frontend/tests/setup-backend.ts b/frontend/tests/setup-backend.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6acf7aa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/tests/setup-backend.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process';
+import { ChildProcess } from 'node:child_process';
+
+let backendProcess: ChildProcess;
+
+export async function setup(): Promise<void> {
+    // Spin up the database
+    spawn('docker', ['compose', 'up', 'db', '--detach'], {
+        cwd: '..',
+        stdio: "pipe",
+    });
+
+    backendProcess = spawn('npm', ['run', 'dev'], {
+        cwd: '../backend',
+        stdio: "pipe",
+    });
+
+    // Wait until you can curl the backend
+    let backendReady = false;
+    while (!backendReady) {
+        try {
+            await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api')
+            backendReady = true;
+        } catch (_) {
+            // Ignore the error
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+export async function teardown(): Promise<void> {
+    if (backendProcess) {
+        backendProcess.kill();
+    }
+
+    spawn('docker', ['compose', 'down'], {
+        cwd: '..',
+        stdio: "pipe"
+    });
+}
diff --git a/frontend/vitest.config.ts b/frontend/vitest.config.ts
index ba2d72b6..2a75f180 100644
--- a/frontend/vitest.config.ts
+++ b/frontend/vitest.config.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export default mergeConfig(
             environment: "jsdom",
             exclude: [...configDefaults.exclude, "e2e/**"],
             root: fileURLToPath(new URL("./", import.meta.url)),
+            // Startup the backend server, because it is needed for some tests
+            globalSetup: [ "./tests/setup-backend.ts" ]
         },
     }),
 );