diff --git a/tests/vite-app/app/app.js b/tests/vite-app/app/app.js
index 984ab9c35..e3e2cb103 100644
--- a/tests/vite-app/app/app.js
+++ b/tests/vite-app/app/app.js
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ import Resolver from 'ember-resolver';
 import loadInitializers from 'ember-load-initializers';
 import config from 'vite-app/config/environment';
 
+// this is needed because of an issue with the dependency discovery in vite
+// where it is not picking up the dependencies of the gjs file because vite
+// never even asks the dependency discovery code to load this file. We
+// suspect that it has got something to do with the fact that the rewritten
+// app is in node_modules so we will revisit this once we have killed the
+// need for a rewritten_app
+import 'vite-app/components/fancy.gjs';
+
 export default class App extends Application {
   modulePrefix = config.modulePrefix;
   podModulePrefix = config.podModulePrefix;