diff --git a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/ReactPlugin.kt b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/ReactPlugin.kt
index 8538eaa9941d48..b6523cdf607c1b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/ReactPlugin.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/ReactPlugin.kt
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ class ReactPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
           // Please note that appNeedsCodegen is triggering a read of the package.json at
           // configuration time as we need to feed the onlyIf condition of this task.
           // Therefore, the appNeedsCodegen needs to be invoked inside this lambda.
-          it.onlyIf { isLibrary || project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(extension) }
+          val needsCodegenFromPackageJson = project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(extension)
+          it.onlyIf { isLibrary || needsCodegenFromPackageJson }
         }
 
     // We create the task to produce schema from JS files.
@@ -120,7 +121,8 @@ class ReactPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
               } else {
                 it.jsRootDir.set(extension.jsRootDir)
               }
-              it.onlyIf { isLibrary || project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(parsedPackageJson) }
+              val needsCodegenFromPackageJson = project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(extension)
+              it.onlyIf { isLibrary || needsCodegenFromPackageJson }
             }
 
     // We create the task to generate Java code from schema.
@@ -139,7 +141,8 @@ class ReactPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
               // Please note that appNeedsCodegen is triggering a read of the package.json at
               // configuration time as we need to feed the onlyIf condition of this task.
               // Therefore, the appNeedsCodegen needs to be invoked inside this lambda.
-              it.onlyIf { isLibrary || project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(extension) }
+              val needsCodegenFromPackageJson = project.needsCodegenFromPackageJson(extension)
+              it.onlyIf { isLibrary || needsCodegenFromPackageJson }
             }
 
     // We update the android configuration to include the generated sources.