diff --git a/src/main/shadow/build/js_support.clj b/src/main/shadow/build/js_support.clj
index 883bc5d8..3be09f65 100644
--- a/src/main/shadow/build/js_support.clj
+++ b/src/main/shadow/build/js_support.clj
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
          ;; since we can't stop closure from rewriting require("react") even when it shouldn't
          ;; we create a second alias var that it replaces the require with a var we actually created
          commonjs-ns
-         (ModuleNames/fileToModuleName (str js-ns-alias))
+         (symbol (ModuleNames/fileToModuleName (str js-ns-alias)))
 
          name
          (str js-ns-alias ".js")]