diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/src/conditional/display.js b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/src/conditional/display.js
index 09da8b32f4..8bfda99007 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/src/conditional/display.js
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/src/conditional/display.js
@@ -152,9 +152,8 @@
           eval.call(window, data);
           console.log("JavaScript text resource eval'd", resource);
         } else if (kind === 'url') {
-          // This is a dependency loaded from the LMS (not ideal)
-          return ViewUtils.loadJavaScript(data).done(function() {
-              console.log('JavaScript url resource loaded', resource);
+          $script(data, data, function () {
+            console.log('JavaScript url resource loaded', resource);
           });
         }
       } else if (mimetype === 'text/html') {
diff --git a/webpack.common.config.js b/webpack.common.config.js
index 5ad625f5eb..e4602d30e5 100644
--- a/webpack.common.config.js
+++ b/webpack.common.config.js
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ module.exports = Merge.smart({
             Popper: 'popper.js', // used by bootstrap
             CodeMirror: 'codemirror',
             'edx.HtmlUtils': 'edx-ui-toolkit/js/utils/html-utils',
-            AjaxPrefix: 'ajax_prefix'
+            AjaxPrefix: 'ajax_prefix',
+            // This is used by some XModules/XBlocks, which don't have
+            // any other way to declare that dependency.
+            $script: 'scriptjs'
         }),
 
         // Note: Until karma-webpack releases v3, it doesn't play well with