diff --git a/react/features/base/app/actions.js b/react/features/base/app/actions.js
index f9d061509..7d8fe0cf4 100644
--- a/react/features/base/app/actions.js
+++ b/react/features/base/app/actions.js
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ declare var APP;
  */
 export function appWillMount(app: Object) {
     return (dispatch: Dispatch<any>) => {
-        dispatch({
-            type: APP_WILL_MOUNT,
-            app
-        });
-
         // TODO There was a redux action creator appInit which I did not like
         // because we already had the redux action creator appWillMount and,
         // respectively, the redux action APP_WILL_MOUNT. So I set out to remove
@@ -30,6 +25,11 @@ export function appWillMount(app: Object) {
         // API module into its own feature yet so we're bound to work on that in
         // the future.
         typeof APP === 'object' && APP.API.init();
+
+        dispatch({
+            type: APP_WILL_MOUNT,
+            app
+        });
     };
 }