diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index ea23ad772db928940188647dbeea6f3ccd8fa413..b09ad6206684687a155098f75421e9d955f763b4 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -14,6 +14,42 @@
 # import sys
 # sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
 
+from importlib import import_module
+from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive
+from docutils import nodes
+from sphinx import addnodes
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(
+    os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(__file__),
+        '..', '..', 'brian_polling_manager')))
+
+class RenderAsJSON(Directive):
+    # cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/59883833
+
+    required_arguments = 1
+
+    def run(self):
+        module_path, member_name = self.arguments[0].rsplit('.', 1)
+
+        member_data = getattr(import_module(module_path), member_name)
+        code = json.dumps(member_data, indent=2)
+
+        literal = nodes.literal_block(code, code)
+        literal['language'] = 'json'
+
+        return [
+                addnodes.desc_name(text=member_name),
+                addnodes.desc_content('', literal)
+        ]
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_directive('asjson', RenderAsJSON)
+
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -31,6 +67,9 @@ release = '0.0.1'
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
 extensions = [
+  'sphinx_rtd_theme',
+  'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+  'sphinx.ext.coverage'
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
@@ -47,9 +86,15 @@ exclude_patterns = []
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
 #
-html_theme = 'alabaster'
+html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
 
 # 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']
\ No newline at end of file
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Both the class’ and the __init__ method’s docstring
+# are concatenated and inserted.
+autoclass_content = "both"
+autodoc_typehints = "none"
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 27a7d64f918ba08b3ba3110a6eea0d2b30e601a1..ce85dbcd29a516b2fdd1b9899761f12b7345e3dc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ requests
 pytest
 responses
 sphinx
+sphinx-rtd-theme