diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 3738a83a..91c30a73 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -23,24 +23,14 @@ 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"
-JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
-OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
-
-[extensions]
-StippleDataFramesExt = "DataFrames"
-StippleOffsetArraysExt = "OffsetArrays"
-StippleJSONExt = "JSON"
-
 [compat]
 DataFrames = "1"
 FilePathsBase = "0.9"
 Genie = "5.18"
 GenieSession = "1"
 GenieSessionFileSession = "1"
-JSON3 = "1.9"
 JSON = "0.20, 0.21"
+JSON3 = "1.9"
 MacroTools = "0.5"
 Mixers = "0.1.2"
 Observables = "0.3, 0.4, 0.5"
@@ -53,6 +43,11 @@ StructTypes = "1.8"
 Tables = "1"
 julia = "1.6"
 
+[extensions]
+StippleDataFramesExt = "DataFrames"
+StippleJSONExt = "JSON"
+StippleOffsetArraysExt = "OffsetArrays"
+
 [extras]
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
@@ -61,3 +56,8 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
 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/StippleJSON.jl b/ext/StippleJSON.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index 33d74c1e..00000000
--- a/ext/StippleJSON.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# garantee interoperability of different JSONTText definitions of JSON3 and JSON
-
-JSON.JSONText(json::Stipple.JSONText) = JSON.JSONText(json.s)
-JSON.show_json(io::JSON.Writer.CompactContext, s::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) = JSONText(string(json))
-@inline JSON3.rawbytes(json::JSON.JSONText) = codeunits(json.s)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl b/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl
index 6b35ec86..dafc2d37 100644
--- a/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl
+++ b/ext/StippleJSONExt.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 module StippleJSONExt
 
 using Stipple
-using JSON
+
+isdefined(Base, :get_extension) ? using JSON : using ..JSON
 
 # garantee interoperability of different JSONTText definitions in Stipple and JSON
 # for both JSON3 and JSON
@@ -9,12 +10,12 @@ using JSON
 # 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, s::JSON.Writer.CS, json::Stipple.JSONText) = write(io, 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) = JSONText(string(json))
+@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 548b2067..e5926ce9 100644
--- a/src/Stipple.jl
+++ b/src/Stipple.jl
@@ -208,21 +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
-      # evaluate the code of the extension without the surrounding module
-      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleJSON.jl"))
-      # Core.eval(@__MODULE__, Meta.parse(join(jl, ';')).args[3])
+      include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "ext", "StippleJSONExt.jl"))
     end
   end
 end