diff --git a/backend/dev-docker/Dockerfile b/backend/dev-docker/Dockerfile
index 126a2246..c2d3871e 100644
--- a/backend/dev-docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/dev-docker/Dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ FROM python:3.8-slim
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58701233/docker-logs-erroneously-appears-empty-until-container-stops
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
-COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
-RUN pip3 install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+# Should be mounted from docker-compose-development.yml
+RUN pip3 install -r /requirements.txt
 
 
 RUN [ ! -d "/datastore" ] && mkdir /datastore
diff --git a/backend/dev-docker/requirements.txt b/backend/dev-docker/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ee29a712..00000000
--- a/backend/dev-docker/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-aiohttp
-async-timeout
-chardet==2.3.0
-multidict
-python-engineio
-six==1.10.0
-yarl
-flask
-
-eventlet
-requests
-validators
-
-bleach==3.2.1
-html5lib==0.9999999       # via bleach
-timeago
-html2text
-
-# @notes
-# - Dont install socketio, it interferes with flask_socketio
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ee29a712..00000000
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-aiohttp
-async-timeout
-chardet==2.3.0
-multidict
-python-engineio
-six==1.10.0
-yarl
-flask
-
-eventlet
-requests
-validators
-
-bleach==3.2.1
-html5lib==0.9999999       # via bleach
-timeago
-html2text
-
-# @notes
-# - Dont install socketio, it interferes with flask_socketio
diff --git a/docker-compose-development.yml b/docker-compose-development.yml
index dd42d96b..f4921256 100644
--- a/docker-compose-development.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-development.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ services:
     container_name: changedetection.io-dev
     volumes:
       - ./backend:/app
+      - ./requirements.txt:/requirements.txt # Normally COPY'ed in the Dockerfile
       - ./datastore:/datastore
 
     ports: