diff --git a/packages/react/src/generators/application/application.ts b/packages/react/src/generators/application/application.ts
index c9a421896e46a0..a722f89f385498 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/generators/application/application.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/generators/application/application.ts
@@ -159,21 +159,11 @@ export async function applicationGeneratorInternal(
       );
       tasks.push(ensureDependencies(host, { uiFramework: 'react' }));
     }
-  } else if (options.bundler === 'rspack') {
-    const { rspackInitGenerator } = ensurePackage('@nx/rspack', nxVersion);
-    const rspackInitTask = await rspackInitGenerator(host, {
-      ...options,
-      addPlugin: false,
-      skipFormat: true,
-    });
-    tasks.push(rspackInitTask);
   }
 
   if (!options.rootProject) {
     extractTsConfigBase(host);
   }
-
-  await createApplicationFiles(host, options);
   addProject(host, options);
 
   if (options.style === 'tailwind') {
@@ -230,6 +220,9 @@ export async function applicationGeneratorInternal(
       false
     );
   } else if (options.bundler === 'rspack') {
+    /**
+     * 'configurationGenerator' calls 'rspackInitGenerator' internally
+     */
     const { configurationGenerator } = ensurePackage('@nx/rspack', nxVersion);
     const rspackTask = await configurationGenerator(host, {
       project: options.projectName,
@@ -251,6 +244,11 @@ export async function applicationGeneratorInternal(
     tasks.push(rspackTask);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Generate app files once both the project and the base configuration are there
+   */
+  await createApplicationFiles(host, options);
+
   if (options.bundler !== 'vite' && options.unitTestRunner === 'vitest') {
     const { createOrEditViteConfig, vitestGenerator } = ensurePackage<
       typeof import('@nx/vite')