diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 02847ce15fea706840e5f6915148a7af2045b5c8..1fc9e9cab10a305f7862d1bbd205c6c5cc9296de 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ release = '1.0dev0'
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
 extensions = [
+    'recommonmark',
     'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
     'sphinxcontrib_django',
     'sphinx_autodoc_typehints',
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 118f9310b7698aed9e7c1e022e25cc2cbdc5d740..297070ffd2c5ce42c2525dd3ba7705d65995f0b0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ Pillow = "^6.1"
 django-phonenumber-field = {version = "^3.0", extras = ["phonenumbers"]}
 django-local-settings = {version = "^1.0-alpha.1", allows-prereleases = true}
 
+
+[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
+sphinx = "^2.1"
+sphinxcontrib-django = "^0.5.0"
+sphinx-autodoc-typehints = "^1.7"
+recommonmark = "^0.6.0"
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry>=0.12"]
 build-backend = "poetry.masonry.api"