diff --git a/scripts/tasks/sandbox.ts b/scripts/tasks/sandbox.ts
index 24b946049631..117d10948b51 100644
--- a/scripts/tasks/sandbox.ts
+++ b/scripts/tasks/sandbox.ts
@@ -25,12 +25,24 @@ export const sandbox: Task = {
     return pathExists(sandboxDir);
   },
   async run(details, options) {
-    if (options.link && details.template.inDevelopment) {
-      logger.log(
-        `The ${options.template} has inDevelopment property enabled, therefore the sandbox for that template cannot be linked. Enabling --no-link mode..`
-      );
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
-      options.link = false;
+    if (options.link) {
+      if (details.template.expected.framework === '@storybook/angular') {
+        // In Angular, tsc is spawn via Webpack and for some reason it follows the symlinks and doesn’t recognize it as node_modules. Hence, it does type checking on regular files.
+        // Angular's tsconfig compilerOptions are more strict than the ones in the mono-repo and results in many errors, therefore we use --no-link to circumvent them.
+        logger.log(
+          `Detected an Angular sandbox, which cannot be linked. Enabling --no-link mode..`
+        );
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
+        options.link = false;
+      }
+
+      if (details.template.inDevelopment) {
+        logger.log(
+          `The ${options.template} has inDevelopment property enabled, therefore the sandbox for that template cannot be linked. Enabling --no-link mode..`
+        );
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
+        options.link = false;
+      }
     }
     if (await this.ready(details)) {
       logger.info('🗑  Removing old sandbox dir');