diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 433acc2..6d31cdd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# setup.py output
+# build output
 build/
 dist/
 simplegist.egg-info/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e677d0..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-include README.md
-include LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d418ec..7ae73cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Python module to convert `JSON` into a human readable `HTML Table` representatio
 pip install json2html
 ```
 
-Or, Download [here](https://github.com/softvar/json2html/releases) and run `python setup.py install` after changing directory to `/json2html`
+Or, Download [here](https://github.com/softvar/json2html/releases) and run `pip install .` after changing directory to `/json2html`
 
 ## Example Usage
 
diff --git a/json2html/__init__.py b/json2html/__init__.py
index fc739c7..a3d493d 100644
--- a/json2html/__init__.py
+++ b/json2html/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 from .jsonconv import *
 
 __author__ = 'Varun Malhotra'
-__version__ = '1.3.0'
+__version__ = '1.3.1'
 __license__ = 'MIT'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8b6a53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 77.0.3"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "json2html"
+authors = [{ name = "Varun Malhotra", email = "varun2902@gmail.com" }]
+description = "JSON to HTML Table Representation"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.6"
+keywords = ["json", "HTML", "Table"]
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
+]
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/softvar/json2html"
+Repository = "https://github.com/softvar/json2html.git"
+Issues = "https://github.com/softvar/json2html/issues"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["json2html"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "json2html.__version__"}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index fc4253a..0000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[metadata]
-description_file = README.md
-max_line_length = 120
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d35259d..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-setup(
-    name = 'json2html',
-    packages = ['json2html'],
-    version = '1.3.0',
-    description = 'JSON to HTML Table Representation',
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
-    author = 'Varun Malhotra',
-    author_email = 'varun2902@gmail.com',
-    url = 'https://github.com/softvar/json2html',
-    download_url = 'https://github.com/softvar/json2html/tarball/1.3.0',
-    keywords = ['json', 'HTML', 'Table'],
-    license = 'MIT',
-    python_requires='>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*',
-    classifiers = [
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
-    ],
-)