diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index d492d7e1d..b67b4c162 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 	"features": {
 		"ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/apt-packages:1": {
 			"packages": "musescore3,lilypond"
-		}
+		},
+		"ghcr.io/va-h/devcontainers-features/uv:1": {}
 	},
-	"postCreateCommand": "pip3 install --user -r requirements_dev.txt;pip3 install --user -e .",
+	"postCreateCommand": "uv sync --locked",
 	"customizations": {
 		"vscode": {
 			"extensions": [
diff --git a/documentation/source/developerReference/developerGuidelines.ipynb b/documentation/source/developerReference/developerGuidelines.ipynb
index 768f90e72..eae51643b 100644
--- a/documentation/source/developerReference/developerGuidelines.ipynb
+++ b/documentation/source/developerReference/developerGuidelines.ipynb
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "source": "## Preparing to Contribute ##\n\nThe recommended setup uses [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). From the repository root:\n\n```\nuv sync\n```\n\nThis creates a virtual environment in `.venv/` and installs runtime dependencies plus the\n`dev` dependency group. The `dev` group self-references `music21[extras]`, so the optional\nextras (`scipy` and `python-Levenshtein`) are pulled in automatically -- the test suite will\nnot pass without them.\n\nIf you prefer pip, the equivalent is:\n\n```\npip install -r requirements_dev.txt\npip install -e '.[extras]'\n```",
+   "source": "## Preparing to Contribute ##\n\nThe recommended setup uses [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). From the repository root:\n\n```\nuv sync\n```\n\nThis creates a virtual environment in `.venv/` and installs runtime dependencies plus the\n`dev` dependency group. The `dev` group self-references `music21[extras]`, so the optional\nextras (`scipy` and `python-Levenshtein`) are pulled in automatically -- the test suite will\nnot pass without them.\n\nUsers who have not yet adopted `uv` may still install runtime dependencies via\n`pip install -r requirements.txt`, but the development workflow (tests, linting, docs,\ntype-checking) is only supported through `uv`.",
    "metadata": {
     "collapsed": false
    }
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a0f863c70..6f64da3ce 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ jsonpickle
 matplotlib
 more_itertools
 numpy>=1.26.4
-webcolors>=1.5
 requests
+webcolors>=1.5
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e966214fe..000000000
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
--r requirements.txt
-coverage
-coveralls
-docutils
-hatch
-hatchling
-ipython
-jupyter
-mypy>=1.16.0
-nbconvert
-nbval
-pylint>=3.2.0
-pytest
-python-Levenshtein
-ruff
-scipy
-sphinx
-twine
-types-requests
-wheel
diff --git a/requirements_minimum.txt b/requirements_minimum.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 22fd628e1..000000000
--- a/requirements_minimum.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-chardet
-joblib
-more-itertools
-requests
-webcolors>=1.5