diff --git a/Applications/TextEditor/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/TextEditor/CMakeLists.txt
index 1feb0ae1838..19820b5ffbf 100644
--- a/Applications/TextEditor/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/TextEditor/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
+compile_json_gui(MainWindow.json MainWindowUI.h main_window_ui_json)
+
 set(SOURCES
     main.cpp
     TextEditorWidget.cpp
     MainWindowUI.h
 )
 
-add_custom_command(
-    OUTPUT MainWindowUI.h
-    DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/MainWindow.json
-    COMMAND ${write_if_different} MainWindowUI.h ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Meta/text-to-cpp-string.sh main_window_ui_json ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/MainWindow.json
-)
-
 serenity_bin(TextEditor)
 target_link_libraries(TextEditor LibWeb LibMarkdown LibGUI LibDesktop)
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index bcd2efffeec..4d0e5a104eb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,19 @@ function(serenity_bin target_name)
     serenity_generated_sources(${target_name})
 endfunction()
 
+function(compile_json_gui source output string_name)
+    set(source ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${source})
+    add_custom_command(
+        OUTPUT ${output}
+        COMMAND ${write_if_different} ${output} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Meta/text-to-cpp-string.sh ${string_name} ${source}
+        VERBATIM
+        DEPENDS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Meta/text-to-cpp-string.sh
+        MAIN_DEPENDENCY ${source}
+    )
+    get_filename_component(output_name ${output} NAME)
+    add_custom_target(generate_${output_name} DEPENDS ${output})
+endfunction()
+
 function(compile_ipc source output)
     set(source ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${source})
     add_custom_command(