diff --git a/apps/cli/src/helpers/setup/workers-tanstack-start-setup.ts b/apps/cli/src/helpers/setup/workers-tanstack-start-setup.ts
index 721a798b..6972fcce 100644
--- a/apps/cli/src/helpers/setup/workers-tanstack-start-setup.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/src/helpers/setup/workers-tanstack-start-setup.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export async function setupTanstackStartWorkersDeploy(
 		.getElements()
 		.findIndex((el) => el.getText().includes("tanstackStart("));
 
-	const tanstackPluginText = 'tanstackStart({ target: "cloudflare-module" })';
+	const tanstackPluginText = 'tanstackStart({ target: "cloudflare-module", customViteReactPlugin: true })';
 
 	if (tanstackPluginIndex === -1) {
 		pluginsArray.addElement(tanstackPluginText);
diff --git a/apps/cli/templates/frontend/react/tanstack-start/vite.config.ts b/apps/cli/templates/frontend/react/tanstack-start/vite.config.ts
index 4996232c..998730e9 100644
--- a/apps/cli/templates/frontend/react/tanstack-start/vite.config.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/templates/frontend/react/tanstack-start/vite.config.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { defineConfig } from "vite";
 import tsconfigPaths from "vite-tsconfig-paths";
 import { tanstackStart } from "@tanstack/react-start/plugin/vite";
 import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite";
+import viteReact from "@vitejs/plugin-react";
 
 export default defineConfig({
-  plugins: [tsconfigPaths(), tailwindcss(), tanstackStart({})],
+  plugins: [tsconfigPaths(), tailwindcss(), tanstackStart({ customViteReactPlugin: true }), viteReact()],
 });