diff --git a/src/frontends/react/HelloWorld.tsx b/src/frontends/react/HelloWorld.tsx
index 9d3fc96..611037d 100644
--- a/src/frontends/react/HelloWorld.tsx
+++ b/src/frontends/react/HelloWorld.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import React from "react";
 import useShape from "../../ng-mock/js-land/frontendAdapters/react/useShape";
 
 export function HelloWorldReact() {
-  const state = useShape("Shape2", "");
+  const state = useShape("Shape1", "");
 
   window.reactState = state;
   console.log("react render", state);
diff --git a/src/ng-mock/js-land/connector/ngSignals.ts b/src/ng-mock/js-land/connector/ngSignals.ts
index 5a8aa8a..2813423 100644
--- a/src/ng-mock/js-land/connector/ngSignals.ts
+++ b/src/ng-mock/js-land/connector/ngSignals.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ import { applyDiff } from "./applyDiff";
 import { batch, deepSignal, watch } from "alien-deepsignals";
 import { signal } from "alien-signals";
 
+const openConnections: Record<Shape, ReturnType<typeof signal>> = {};
+
 // TODO: The code is horrible.
 export function createSignalObjectForShape(shape: Shape, scope?: Scope) {
+  if (openConnections[shape]) return openConnections[shape];
+
   // TODO:
   // DeepSignal has a different API to alien-signals.
   // Therefore, we need to create a "root signal" wrapper that is
@@ -66,5 +70,6 @@ export function createSignalObjectForShape(shape: Shape, scope?: Scope) {
     }
   );
 
+  openConnections[shape] = rootSignal;
   return rootSignal;
 }