diff --git a/lib/react_on_rails/react_component/options.rb b/lib/react_on_rails/react_component/options.rb
index d393297842..38c0db5390 100644
--- a/lib/react_on_rails/react_component/options.rb
+++ b/lib/react_on_rails/react_component/options.rb
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ def initialize(name: required("name"), options: required("options"))
       end
 
       def props
-        props = options.fetch(:props) { NO_PROPS }
-        props.is_a?(String) ? JSON.parse(ERB::Util.json_escape(props)) : props
+        options.fetch(:props) { NO_PROPS }
       end
 
       def name