diff --git a/packages/react-server-cli/package.json b/packages/react-server-cli/package.json
index d1c9e7e73..38efc87db 100644
--- a/packages/react-server-cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-server-cli/package.json
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     "express": "~4.14.0",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "~0.8.2",
     "file-loader": "~0.8.5",
+    "json-loader": "^0.5.4",
     "mkdirp": "~0.5.1",
     "node-libs-browser": "~0.5.2",
     "null-loader": "~0.1.1",
diff --git a/packages/react-server-cli/src/compileClient.js b/packages/react-server-cli/src/compileClient.js
index 459430905..fb7664248 100644
--- a/packages/react-server-cli/src/compileClient.js
+++ b/packages/react-server-cli/src/compileClient.js
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ const packageCodeForBrowser = (entrypoints, outputDir, outputUrl, hot, minify, l
 					loader: "file",
 					exclude: /node_modules/,
 				},
+				{
+					test: /\.json/,
+					loader: "json",
+					exclude: /node_modules/,
+				},
 			],
 		},
 		resolve: {