diff --git a/src/streamsync/command_line.py b/src/streamsync/command_line.py
index 6fc11e72f..2f8fa526e 100644
--- a/src/streamsync/command_line.py
+++ b/src/streamsync/command_line.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def _perform_checks(command: str, absolute_app_path: str, host: Optional[str]):
     if command in ("hello"):
         try:
             import pandas
-            import plotly.express
+            import plotly.express # type: ignore
         except ImportError:
             logging.error("Running streamsync hello requires pandas and plotly.express. Install them with:\npip install streamsync[ds]")
             sys.exit(1)