diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr_check.yml b/.github/workflows/pr_check.yml
index 41155fb..e3d5558 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr_check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr_check.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Install Dependencies
         run: |
-          pip install .[test]
+          pip install .[dev]
       - name: Run Tests
         run: |
           python -m pytest
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 65b5f63..8be2218 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -94,3 +94,26 @@ Examples:
     $ jdiff a.json b.json -i 2 -s symmetric
 
     $ jdiff a.yaml b.yaml -f yaml -s symmetric
+
+Development
+-----------
+
+Install development dependencies and test locally with
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+    # ... do your work ... add tests ...
+    pytest
+
+Installing From Source
+----------------------
+
+To install from source run
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    pip install .
+
+This will install the library and cli for `jsondiff` as well as its runtime
+dependencies.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1245398..2c822cc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 name = "jsondiff"
 description = "Diff JSON and JSON-like structures in Python"
-dynamic = ["version"]
+dynamic = ["version", "dependencies", "optional-dependencies"]
 readme = "README.rst"
 license= {file = "LICENSE" }
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
@@ -17,15 +17,6 @@ classifiers = [
     'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
 ]
-dependencies = [
-    "pyyaml"
-]
-
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = [
-    "hypothesis",
-    "pytest"
-]
 
 [project.urls]
 "Homepage" = "https://github.com/xlwings/jsondiff"
@@ -40,3 +31,7 @@ exclude = ["tests*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
 version = {attr = "jsondiff.__version__"}
+dependencies = {file=["requirements.txt"]}
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic.optional-dependencies]
+dev = {file=["requirements-dev.txt"]}
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a54149
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+hypothesis
+pytest
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3726e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pyyaml