diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/default.nix
index a447c3172d60..148a79fe5cee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/default.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   reason-react-ppx,
 }:
 
-buildDunePackage {
+buildDunePackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "reason-react";
   inherit (reason-react-ppx) version src;
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ buildDunePackage {
   meta = reason-react-ppx.meta // {
     description = "Reason bindings for React.js";
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/ppx.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/ppx.nix
index d81cbf021849..578a35604678 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/ppx.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reason-react/ppx.nix
@@ -3,18 +3,21 @@
   fetchurl,
   lib,
   ppxlib,
+  version ? if lib.versionAtLeast ppxlib.version "0.36" then "0.17.0" else "0.16.0",
 }:
 
-let
-  version = "0.16.0";
-in
-buildDunePackage {
+buildDunePackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "reason-react-ppx";
   inherit version;
   minimalOCamlVersion = "4.14";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/releases/download/${version}/reason-react-${version}.tbz";
-    hash = "sha256-esPB+mvHHTQ3mUYILrkOjMELJxRDIsWleFcxIwOPQ1w=";
+    url = "https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/releases/download/${finalAttrs.version}/reason-react-${finalAttrs.version}.tbz";
+    hash =
+      {
+        "0.16.0" = "sha256-esPB+mvHHTQ3mUYILrkOjMELJxRDIsWleFcxIwOPQ1w=";
+        "0.17.0" = "sha256-ArZ6CL1UjcGYPBvGnvQX7Qa16+mQT3T8mETHprT/MYw=";
+      }
+      ."${finalAttrs.version}";
   };
   buildInputs = [ ppxlib ];
   doCheck = false; # Needs to run in reason-react, see default.nix
@@ -23,6 +26,5 @@ buildDunePackage {
     homepage = "https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.vog ];
-    broken = lib.versionAtLeast ppxlib.version "0.36";
   };
-}
+})