diff --git a/examples/json_data/BUILD.bazel b/examples/json_data/BUILD.bazel
index a5f77e16..92e4661e 100644
--- a/examples/json_data/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/examples/json_data/BUILD.bazel
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ ts_project(
         "src/tsdata.json",
         "src/tsdata.txt",
         ":fg",
+        "//examples/json_data/src/test_data",
     ],
     tsconfig = {
         "compilerOptions": {
diff --git a/examples/json_data/src/test_data/BUILD.bazel b/examples/json_data/src/test_data/BUILD.bazel
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9de429fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/json_data/src/test_data/BUILD.bazel
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+filegroup(
+    name = "test_data",
+    srcs = [
+        "tsdata.json",
+    ],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
diff --git a/examples/json_data/src/test_data/tsdata.json b/examples/json_data/src/test_data/tsdata.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6c9c189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/json_data/src/test_data/tsdata.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "data": 42 }