diff --git a/examples/simple-router-wasm/Cargo.toml b/examples/simple-router-wasm/Cargo.toml
index 03de581ab0..64a514a168 100644
--- a/examples/simple-router-wasm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/simple-router-wasm/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ publish = false
 # `default-features = false` to not depend on tokio features which don't support wasm
 # you can still pull in tokio manually and only add features that tokio supports for wasm
 axum = { path = "../../axum", default-features = false }
+# we don't strictly need axum-extra for this example but wanna make sure that
+# works in wasm as well
+axum-extra = { path = "../../axum-extra", default-features = false }
 futures-executor = "0.3.21"
 http = "0.2.7"
 tower-service = "0.3.1"