diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 881af688..b1bebbe7 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -21,39 +21,43 @@ Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 Reexport = "189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 StructTypes = "856f2bd8-1eba-4b0a-8007-ebc267875bd4"
-Tables  = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
-
-[weakdeps]
-DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
-OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
-
-[extensions]
-StippleDataFramesExt = "DataFrames"
-StippleOffsetArraysExt = "OffsetArrays"
+Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 
 [compat]
+DataFrames = "1"
 FilePathsBase = "0.9"
 Genie = "5.18"
 GenieSession = "1"
 GenieSessionFileSession = "1"
+JSON = "0.20, 0.21"
 JSON3 = "1.9"
 MacroTools = "0.5"
 Mixers = "0.1.2"
 Observables = "0.3, 0.4, 0.5"
+OffsetArrays = "1"
 OrderedCollections = "1"
 Parameters = "0.12"
 Reexport = "1"
 Requires = "1"
 StructTypes = "1.8"
-julia = "1.6"
-OffsetArrays = "1"
-DataFrames = "1"
 Tables = "1"
+julia = "1.6"
+
+[extensions]
+StippleDataFramesExt = "DataFrames"
+StippleJSONExt = "JSON"
+StippleOffsetArraysExt = "OffsetArrays"
 
 [extras]
-Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
+JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
 OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
+Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Test", "DataFrames", "OffsetArrays"]
+test = ["Test", "DataFrames", "JSON", "OffsetArrays"]
+
+[weakdeps]
+DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
+JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
+OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
diff --git a/ext/StippleDataFrames.jl b/ext/StippleDataFrames.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index ba61dd74..00000000
--- a/ext/StippleDataFrames.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-function Stipple.stipple_parse(::Type{DF} where DF <: DataFrames.AbstractDataFrame, d::Vector)
-  isempty(d) ? DF() : reduce(vcat, DataFrames.DataFrame.(d))
-end
-
-function Stipple.render(df::DataFrames.DataFrame)
-  OrderedDict(zip(names(df), eachcol(df)))
-end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/StippleDataFramesExt.jl b/ext/StippleDataFramesExt.jl
index 12fd0ddb..4f606740 100644
--- a/ext/StippleDataFramesExt.jl
+++ b/ext/StippleDataFramesExt.jl
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 module StippleDataFramesExt
 
-@static if isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-  using Stipple
-  using DataFrames
-end
+using Stipple
+
+isdefined(Base, :get_extension) ? using DataFrames : using ..DataFrames
 
 function Stipple.stipple_parse(::Type{DF} where DF <: DataFrames.AbstractDataFrame, d::Vector)
   isempty(d) ? DF() : reduce(vcat, DataFrames.DataFrame.(d))
diff --git a/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl b/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dafc2d37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+module StippleJSONExt
+
+using Stipple
+
+isdefined(Base, :get_extension) ? using JSON : using ..JSON
+
+# garantee interoperability of different JSONTText definitions in Stipple and JSON
+# for both JSON3 and JSON
+# Note that `lower` for Stipple.JSONText is not defined as parse(json.s), because that would require
+# pure proper JSON. For transmissions of bindings, though, we need to allow to pass object names.
+
+JSON.JSONText(json::Stipple.JSONText) = JSON.JSONText(json.s)
+JSON.show_json(io::JSON.Writer.CompactContext, ::JSON.Writer.CS, json::Stipple.JSONText) = write(io, json.s)
+JSON.Writer.lower(json::Stipple.JSONText) = json.s
+
+Stipple.JSONText(json::JSON.JSONText) = Stipple.JSONText(json.s)
+@inline StructTypes.StructType(::Type{JSON.JSONText}) = JSON3.RawType()
+@inline StructTypes.construct(::Type{JSON.JSONText}, json::JSON3.RawValue) = JSON.JSONText(string(json))
+@inline JSON3.rawbytes(json::JSON.JSONText) = codeunits(json.s)
+
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/StippleOffsetArrays.jl b/ext/StippleOffsetArrays.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index 60fc4bfd..00000000
--- a/ext/StippleOffsetArrays.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-function Stipple.convertvalue(targetfield::Union{Ref{T}, Reactive{T}}, value) where T <: OffsetArrays.OffsetArray
-  a = Stipple.stipple_parse(eltype(targetfield), value)
-
-  # if value is not an OffsetArray use the offset of the current array
-  if ! isa(value, OffsetArrays.OffsetArray)
-    o = targetfield[].offsets
-    OffsetArrays.OffsetArray(a, OffsetArrays.Origin(1 .+ o))
-  # otherwise use the existing value
-  else
-    a
-  end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/StippleOffsetArraysExt.jl b/ext/StippleOffsetArraysExt.jl
index 0070e3d1..9af9f865 100644
--- a/ext/StippleOffsetArraysExt.jl
+++ b/ext/StippleOffsetArraysExt.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 module StippleOffsetArraysExt
 
 using Stipple
-using OffsetArrays
+
+isdefined(Base, :get_extension) ? using OffsetArrays : using ..OffsetArrays
 
 function Stipple.convertvalue(targetfield::Union{Ref{T}, Reactive{T}}, value) where T <: OffsetArrays.OffsetArray
   a = Stipple.stipple_parse(eltype(targetfield), value)
diff --git a/ext/StippleTablesExt.jl b/ext/StippleTablesExt.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index 097f8624..00000000
--- a/ext/StippleTablesExt.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-module StippleTablesExt
-
-using Stipple
-import Tables
-
-
-end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Stipple.jl b/src/Stipple.jl
index 989b4b93..e5926ce9 100644
--- a/src/Stipple.jl
+++ b/src/Stipple.jl
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ existing Vue.js libraries.
 """
 module Stipple
 
+const PRECOMPILE = Ref(false)
+
 """
 @using_except(expr)
 
@@ -206,15 +208,15 @@ function __init__()
 
   @static if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
     @require OffsetArrays  = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881" begin
-      # evaluate the code of the extension without the surrounding module
-      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleOffsetArrays.jl"))
-      # Core.eval(@__MODULE__, Meta.parse(join(jl, ';')).args[3])
+      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleOffsetArraysExt.jl"))
     end
 
     @require DataFrames  = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0" begin
-      # evaluate the code of the extension without the surrounding module
-      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleDataFrames.jl"))
-      # Core.eval(@__MODULE__, Meta.parse(join(jl, ';')).args[3])
+      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleDataFramesExt.jl"))
+    end
+
+    @require JSON  = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6" begin
+      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleJSONExt.jl"))
     end
   end
 end
@@ -443,7 +445,7 @@ function init(::Type{M};
   # add a timer that checks if the model is outdated and if so prepare the model to be garbage collected
   LAST_ACTIVITY[Symbol(getchannel(model))] = now()
 
-  Timer(setup_purge_checker(model), PURGE_CHECK_DELAY[], interval = PURGE_CHECK_DELAY[])
+  PRECOMPILE[] || Timer(setup_purge_checker(model), PURGE_CHECK_DELAY[], interval = PURGE_CHECK_DELAY[])
 
   if is_channels_webtransport()
     Genie.Assets.channels_subscribe(channel)
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index ec9efefd..73765ea0 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -350,4 +350,15 @@ end
     @test cell(sm = 9) == "<div class=\"st-col col col-sm-9\"></div>"
 
     @test cell(col = -1, sm = 9) == "<div class=\"st-col col-sm-9\"></div>"
+end
+
+@testset "Compatibility of JSONText between JSON3 and JSON" begin
+    using JSON
+    using Stipple
+    jt1 = JSON.JSONText("json text 1")
+    jt2 = Stipple.JSONText("json text 2")
+    @test JSON.json(jt1) == "json text 1"
+    @test Stipple.json(jt1) == "json text 1"
+    @test JSON.json(jt2) == "json text 2"
+    @test Stipple.json(jt2) == "json text 2"
 end
\ No newline at end of file