diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/javascript-transformer.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/javascript-transformer.ts
index ce4b0aa91356..08d8efd4e94a 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/javascript-transformer.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/javascript-transformer.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ export class JavaScriptTransformer {
       // Shutdown idle threads after 1 second of inactivity
       idleTimeout: 1000,
       recordTiming: false,
+      // Prevent passing `--import` (loader-hooks) from parent to child worker.
+      execArgv: [],
     });
 
     return this.#workerPool;