diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 599be0e..c6d125a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ Writing documentation
 1. Edit the source files in ``docs/source``.
 2. Build the HTML version using ``make html`` (in the ``docs`` folder).
 3. View the result in your browser in ``docs/build``
+
+
+For continuous rebuilds and live-reload in the browser while editing the docs, run `sphinx-autobuild docs/source docs/build/html --open-browser`
+
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 1ed3705..da8d144 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = ['_static']
+# html_static_path = ['_static']
diff --git a/requirements-dev.in b/requirements-dev.in
index 4434a22..0fe5cc4 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.in
+++ b/requirements-dev.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 sphinx
 guzzle-sphinx-theme
+sphinx-autobuild
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index f739e42..9edaa67 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.9
 # To update, run:
 #
 #    pip-compile --output-file=requirements-dev.txt requirements-dev.in
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ certifi==2020.12.5
     # via requests
 chardet==4.0.0
     # via requests
+colorama==0.4.4
+    # via sphinx-autobuild
 docutils==0.17.1
     # via sphinx
 guzzle-sphinx-theme==0.7.11
@@ -22,6 +24,8 @@ imagesize==1.2.0
     # via sphinx
 jinja2==3.0.1
     # via sphinx
+livereload==2.6.3
+    # via sphinx-autobuild
 markupsafe==2.0.1
     # via jinja2
 packaging==20.9
@@ -34,12 +38,17 @@ pytz==2021.1
     # via babel
 requests==2.25.1
     # via sphinx
+six==1.16.0
+    # via livereload
 snowballstemmer==2.1.0
     # via sphinx
 sphinx==4.0.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements-dev.in
     #   guzzle-sphinx-theme
+    #   sphinx-autobuild
+sphinx-autobuild==2021.3.14
+    # via -r requirements-dev.in
 sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.2
     # via sphinx
 sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2
@@ -52,6 +61,8 @@ sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3
     # via sphinx
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5
     # via sphinx
+tornado==6.1
+    # via livereload
 urllib3==1.26.4
     # via requests