diff --git a/packages/react/package.json b/packages/react/package.json
index 48b35583..ed0287b7 100644
--- a/packages/react/package.json
+++ b/packages/react/package.json
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
     "ava": "latest",
     "babel-plugin-transform-react-pure-class-to-function": "latest",
     "babel-plugin-transform-react-remove-prop-types": "latest",
-    "execa": "latest",
+    "tinyspawn": "latest",
     "lodash": "latest",
     "prop-types": "latest",
     "react": "18",
diff --git a/packages/react/test/build.mjs b/packages/react/test/build.mjs
index f6b4dcb2..4c6a0225 100644
--- a/packages/react/test/build.mjs
+++ b/packages/react/test/build.mjs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import { $ } from 'execa'
+import $ from 'tinyspawn'
 import test from 'ava'
 
-const evalScript = code => $`node --eval ${code}`.then(({ stdout }) => stdout)
-evalScript.esm = code => $`node --input-type module --eval ${code}`.then(({ stdout }) => stdout)
+const evalScript = (code, flags = []) => $('node', ['--eval', code, ...flags]).then(({ stdout }) => stdout)
+evalScript.esm = code => evalScript(code, ['--input-type', 'module'])
 
 test('cjs', async t => {
   t.snapshot((await evalScript("console.log(require('./dist/microlink.cjs'))")))