diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/tools/esbuild/angular/angular-host.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/tools/esbuild/angular/angular-host.ts
index 63ebf72f916f..0ce3d0f9bfbf 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/tools/esbuild/angular/angular-host.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/tools/esbuild/angular/angular-host.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ export function createAngularCompilerHost(
 ): AngularCompilerHost {
   // Create TypeScript compiler host
   const host: AngularCompilerHost = ts.createIncrementalCompilerHost(compilerOptions);
+  // Set the parsing mode to the same as TS 5.3 default for tsc. This provides a parse
+  // performance improvement by skipping non-type related JSDoc parsing.
+  // NOTE: The check for this enum can be removed when TS 5.3 support is the minimum.
+  if (ts.JSDocParsingMode) {
+    host.jsDocParsingMode = ts.JSDocParsingMode.ParseForTypeErrors;
+  }
 
   // The AOT compiler currently requires this hook to allow for a transformResource hook.
   // Once the AOT compiler allows only a transformResource hook, this can be reevaluated.