diff --git a/test-starlette/pyproject.toml b/test-starlette/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91f9df3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-starlette/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[project]
+name = "test-starlette"
+version = "0"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+
+dependencies = [
+    "ipdb>=0.13.13",
+    "starlette>=0.46.1",
+    "uvicorn>=0.34.0",
+    "sentry-sdk[starlette]",
+]
+
+[tool.uv.sources]
+sentry-sdk = { path = "../../sentry-python", editable = true }
diff --git a/test-starlette/requirements.txt b/test-starlette/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b1325f..0000000
--- a/test-starlette/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-starlette
-
-uvicorn
-
-ipdb
-
--e ../../../code/sentry-python  # sdk in a sibling folder to this projects folder
diff --git a/test-starlette/run.sh b/test-starlette/run.sh
index 2668af0..4971811 100755
--- a/test-starlette/run.sh
+++ b/test-starlette/run.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
 
-# exit on first error
-set -xe
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+fi
 
-# create and activate virtual environment
-python -m venv .venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
-
-# Install (or update) requirements
-python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-# Run starlette app
-uvicorn main:app --reload
\ No newline at end of file
+uv run uvicorn main:app --reload