diff --git a/tooling/create-tauri-app/bin/create-tauri-app.js b/tooling/create-tauri-app/bin/create-tauri-app.js
index 61908f61c..f1e1b41ee 100755
--- a/tooling/create-tauri-app/bin/create-tauri-app.js
+++ b/tooling/create-tauri-app/bin/create-tauri-app.js
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ async function runInit(argv, config = {}) {
     });
 
     console.log("===== running tauri init =====");
+    await shell("npm", ["set-script", "tauri", "tauri"], {
+      cwd: join(cwd, cfg.appName),
+    });
     const binary = !argv.b ? packageManager : resolve(appDirectory, argv.b);
     const runTauriArgs =
       packageManager === "npm" && !argv.b