diff --git a/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/getComponentFiles.js b/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/getComponentFiles.js
index ec2993a79..f395929ab 100644
--- a/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/getComponentFiles.js
+++ b/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/getComponentFiles.js
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ function getComponentFiles(filename) {
     var styleMatch = new RegExp('^'+fileMatch+'style\\.\\w+$');
     var componentMatch = new RegExp('^'+fileMatch+'component\\.\\w+$');
     var splitComponentMatch = new RegExp('^'+fileMatch+'component-browser\\.\\w+$');
+    var packageMatch = new RegExp('^'+fileMatch+'browser\\.\\json$');
 
     var dirname = path.dirname(filename);
 
     var foundFiles = {
         styles: [],
         file: null,
-        browserFile: null
+        browserFile: null,
+        package: null
     };
 
     var dirFiles = fs.readdirSync(dirname);
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@ function getComponentFiles(filename) {
             foundFiles.browserFile = file;
         } else if (componentMatch.test(file)) {
             foundFiles.file = file;
+        } else if (packageMatch.test(file)) {
+            foundFiles.package = file;
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/handleRootNodes.js b/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/handleRootNodes.js
index 32b8a75a0..fd3ed097c 100644
--- a/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/handleRootNodes.js
+++ b/src/components/taglib/TransformHelper/handleRootNodes.js
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ module.exports = function handleRootNodes() {
         context.addDependency('./' + styleFile);
     });
 
+    if (componentFiles.package) {
+        context.addDependency('package: ./' + componentFiles.package);
+    }
+
     if (componentFiles.file) {
         let file = componentFiles.file;
 
diff --git a/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/browser.json b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/browser.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e26dfeeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/browser.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/expected.js b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/expected.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..110662787
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/expected.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+"use strict";
+
+var marko_template = module.exports = require("marko/src/html").t(__filename);
+
+function render(input, out) {
+  var data = input;
+
+  out.w("YOLO");
+}
+
+marko_template._ = render;
+
+marko_template.meta = {
+    deps: [
+      "package: ./browser.json"
+    ]
+  };
diff --git a/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/index.marko b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/index.marko
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee6b6478e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/autotests/components-compilation/browser-json-dependency/index.marko
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+-- YOLO
\ No newline at end of file