diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c49b1a..b5b247c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ To run the development server run, you MUST have run `pip install` first:
 gunicorn -c gunicorn.config.py dev:api
 ```
 
-Due to production container using .pipfiles and pipenv make sure to run the following to regenerate the pip files before a release commit:
-```shell
-# Run this in dev container
-pipenv install -r requirements.txt 
-```
-
 ## Caveats
 
 Currently there is no git in the container so you can't see what's been edited or not, git will have to be managed from the host.
diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 16b1d9c..ed2a70b 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from markdown import markdown
 from flask import Flask
 from flask_restful import Api, Resource, reqparse
+from flask_cors import CORS
 import random
 import os
 
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ def _add_a_attrs(soup):
 
 
 api = Flask(__name__)
+CORS(api)
 _api = Api(api)
 
 _api.add_resource(Post, "/post/<string:slug>")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2f1c032..c447569 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,22 @@
-# To ensure app dependencies are ported from your virtual environment/host machine into your container, run 'pip freeze > requirements.txt' in the terminal to overwrite this file
-flask==1.1.2
-gunicorn==20.0.4
-aniso8601==9.0.1
-beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
-click==8.0.1
-Flask-RESTful==0.3.9
-itsdangerous==2.0.1
-Jinja2==3.0.1
-Markdown==3.3.4
-MarkupSafe==2.0.1
-pytz==2021.1
-six==1.16.0
-soupsieve==2.2.1
+aniso8601==9.0.1
+appdirs==1.4.4
+beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
+certifi==2021.5.30
+click==8.0.1
+distlib==0.3.2
+filelock==3.0.12
+Flask==1.1.2
+Flask-Cors==3.0.10
+Flask-RESTful==0.3.9
+gunicorn==20.0.4
+itsdangerous==2.0.1
+Jinja2==3.0.1
+Markdown==3.3.4
+MarkupSafe==2.0.1
+pipenv==2021.5.29
+pytz==2021.1
+six==1.16.0
+soupsieve==2.2.1
+virtualenv==20.4.7
+virtualenv-clone==0.5.4
+Werkzeug==2.0.1