diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/index.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/index.ts
index 3103dff14f63..56db48229dab 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/index.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/index.ts
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ export async function* buildEsbuildBrowser(
   const watcher = createWatcher({
     polling: typeof initialOptions.poll === 'number',
     interval: initialOptions.poll,
-    // Ignore the output path to avoid infinite rebuild cycles
-    ignored: [normalizedOptions.outputPath],
+    // Ignore the output and cache paths to avoid infinite rebuild cycles
+    ignored: [normalizedOptions.outputPath, normalizedOptions.cacheOptions.basePath],
   });
 
   // Temporarily watch the entire project
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/options.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/options.ts
index 29f86f867320..7a36796a95a2 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/options.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/browser-esbuild/options.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import { BuilderContext } from '@angular-devkit/architect';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { normalizeAssetPatterns, normalizeOptimization, normalizeSourceMaps } from '../../utils';
+import { normalizeCacheOptions } from '../../utils/normalize-cache';
 import { normalizePolyfills } from '../../utils/normalize-polyfills';
 import { generateEntryPoints } from '../../utils/package-chunk-sort';
 import { getIndexInputFile, getIndexOutputFile } from '../../utils/webpack-browser-config';
@@ -39,7 +40,9 @@ export async function normalizeOptions(
     workspaceRoot,
     (projectMetadata.sourceRoot as string | undefined) ?? 'src',
   );
-  // Normalize options
+
+  const cacheOptions = normalizeCacheOptions(projectMetadata, workspaceRoot);
+
   const mainEntryPoint = path.join(workspaceRoot, options.main);
 
   // Currently esbuild do not support multiple files per entry-point
@@ -145,6 +148,7 @@ export async function normalizeOptions(
   return {
     advancedOptimizations: buildOptimizer,
     baseHref,
+    cacheOptions,
     crossOrigin,
     externalDependencies,
     poll,