diff --git a/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts b/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
index 661e0efd..e4bb3658 100644
--- a/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ import {
   ServerDuplexStream,
 } from './server-call';
 
-const supportedNodeVersions = require('../../package.json').engines.node;
+import { engines as supportedEngines } from '../package.json';
+const supportedNodeVersions = supportedEngines.node;
 if (!semver.satisfies(process.version, supportedNodeVersions)) {
   throw new Error(`@grpc/grpc-js only works on Node ${supportedNodeVersions}`);
 }
diff --git a/packages/grpc-js/src/subchannel.ts b/packages/grpc-js/src/subchannel.ts
index 3f6cfd52..3f71720e 100644
--- a/packages/grpc-js/src/subchannel.ts
+++ b/packages/grpc-js/src/subchannel.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import { LogVerbosity } from './constants';
 import { shouldUseProxy, getProxiedConnection } from './http_proxy';
 import * as net from 'net';
 
-const { version: clientVersion } = require('../../package.json');
+import { version as clientVersion } from '../package.json';
 
 const TRACER_NAME = 'subchannel';
 
diff --git a/packages/grpc-js/tsconfig.json b/packages/grpc-js/tsconfig.json
index f60cbdc0..ba675db7 100644
--- a/packages/grpc-js/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/grpc-js/tsconfig.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     "outDir": "build",
     "target": "es2017",
     "module": "commonjs",
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "incremental": true
   },
   "include": [