diff --git a/mara_app/.scripts/install.mk b/mara_app/.scripts/install.mk
index 8dc39d6..d6ad55f 100644
--- a/mara_app/.scripts/install.mk
+++ b/mara_app/.scripts/install.mk
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ migrate-mara-db:
 
 # run flask development server
 run-flask:
-	. .venv/bin/activate; flask run --with-threads --reload --eager-loading 2>&1
+	. .venv/bin/activate; flask run --with-threads --reload 2>&1
 
 
 # run https://github.com/naiquevin/pipdeptree to check whether the currently installed packages have
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 3f51579..1557dc8 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ python_requires = >= 3.6
 install_requires =
     mara-page>=1.7.0
     mara-db>=3.0.0
-    flask>=1.0.2
+    flask>=2.0
 
 [options.extras_require]
 test = pytest; pytest_click