diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 416f1b10c..e609141bd 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.idea$
 ^\.dev$
-^\.devcontainers$
+^\.devcontainer$
 ^\.lintr$
 ^\.lintr_new$
 ^wercker\.yml$
diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..768428f4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+FROM rocker/r-base
+
+RUN apt-get -qq update && \
+  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git libxml2-dev
+
+COPY DESCRIPTION .
+
+RUN Rscript -e '                           \
+  install.packages("remotes");             \
+  remotes::install_deps(dependencies = c(  \
+    "Imports",                             \
+    "Config/needs/development"             \
+  ))                                       \
+'
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b30eaba32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "build": { "dockerfile": "Dockerfile", "context": ".."}
+}
diff --git a/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json b/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 675ee26d3..000000000
--- a/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "image": "rocker/r-base"
-}
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4a46f62ef..c3857e4b3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Enhances:
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
 Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate
+Config/Needs/development: pkgload, cli, testthat, patrick
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)