diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/builders/dev-server/tests/behavior/build-assets_spec.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/builders/dev-server/tests/behavior/build-assets_spec.ts
index c1ee820d6f1b..f7c7a0acb33a 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/builders/dev-server/tests/behavior/build-assets_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/builders/dev-server/tests/behavior/build-assets_spec.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ import { describeServeBuilder } from '../jasmine-helpers';
 import { BASE_OPTIONS, DEV_SERVER_BUILDER_INFO } from '../setup';
 
 describeServeBuilder(executeDevServer, DEV_SERVER_BUILDER_INFO, (harness, setupTarget) => {
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    // Application code is not needed for these tests
+    await harness.writeFile('src/main.ts', 'console.log("TEST");');
+  });
+
   const javascriptFileContent =
     "import {foo} from 'unresolved'; /* a comment */const foo = `bar`;\n\n\n";
 
@@ -53,6 +58,42 @@ describeServeBuilder(executeDevServer, DEV_SERVER_BUILDER_INFO, (harness, setupT
       expect(await response?.text()).toContain(javascriptFileContent);
     });
 
+    it('serves a project CSS asset unmodified', async () => {
+      const cssFileContent = 'p { color: blue };';
+      await harness.writeFile('src/extra.css', cssFileContent);
+
+      setupTarget(harness, {
+        assets: ['src/extra.css'],
+      });
+
+      harness.useTarget('serve', {
+        ...BASE_OPTIONS,
+      });
+
+      const { result, response } = await executeOnceAndFetch(harness, 'extra.css');
+
+      expect(result?.success).toBeTrue();
+      expect(await response?.text()).toBe(cssFileContent);
+    });
+
+    it('serves a project SCSS asset unmodified', async () => {
+      const cssFileContent = 'p { color: blue };';
+      await harness.writeFile('src/extra.scss', cssFileContent);
+
+      setupTarget(harness, {
+        assets: ['src/extra.scss'],
+      });
+
+      harness.useTarget('serve', {
+        ...BASE_OPTIONS,
+      });
+
+      const { result, response } = await executeOnceAndFetch(harness, 'extra.scss');
+
+      expect(result?.success).toBeTrue();
+      expect(await response?.text()).toBe(cssFileContent);
+    });
+
     it('should return 404 for non existing assets', async () => {
       setupTarget(harness, {
         assets: [],
diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/vite/middlewares/assets-middleware.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/vite/middlewares/assets-middleware.ts
index f3c5098ab74c..a9fe69ffca15 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/vite/middlewares/assets-middleware.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/vite/middlewares/assets-middleware.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export interface ComponentStyleRecord {
   reload?: boolean;
 }
 
+const CSS_PREPROCESSOR_REGEXP = /\.(?:s[ac]ss|less|css)$/;
 const JS_TS_REGEXP = /\.[cm]?[tj]sx?$/;
 
 export function createAngularAssetsMiddleware(
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ export function createAngularAssetsMiddleware(
     // Rewrite all build assets to a vite raw fs URL
     const asset = assets.get(pathname);
     if (asset) {
-      // This is a workaround to serve JS and TS files without Vite transformations.
-      if (JS_TS_REGEXP.test(extension)) {
+      // This is a workaround to serve CSS, JS and TS files without Vite transformations.
+      if (JS_TS_REGEXP.test(extension) || CSS_PREPROCESSOR_REGEXP.test(extension)) {
         const contents = readFileSync(asset.source);
         const etag = `W/${createHash('sha256').update(contents).digest('hex')}`;
         if (checkAndHandleEtag(req, res, etag)) {