diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/builders/application/tests/behavior/typescript-incremental_spec.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/builders/application/tests/behavior/typescript-incremental_spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c73e66d9f8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/builders/application/tests/behavior/typescript-incremental_spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google LLC All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+import { buildApplication } from '../../index';
+import { APPLICATION_BUILDER_INFO, BASE_OPTIONS, describeBuilder } from '../setup';
+
+describeBuilder(buildApplication, APPLICATION_BUILDER_INFO, (harness) => {
+  describe('Behavior: "TypeScript explicit incremental option usage"', () => {
+    it('should successfully build with incremental disabled', async () => {
+      // Disable tsconfig incremental option in tsconfig
+      await harness.modifyFile('tsconfig.json', (content) => {
+        const tsconfig = JSON.parse(content);
+        tsconfig.compilerOptions.incremental = false;
+
+        return JSON.stringify(tsconfig);
+      });
+
+      harness.useTarget('build', {
+        ...BASE_OPTIONS,
+      });
+
+      const { result } = await harness.executeOnce();
+
+      expect(result?.success).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/angular/compiler-plugin.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/angular/compiler-plugin.ts
index ec76cc2c7a8e..a992a199c1cb 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/angular/compiler-plugin.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/angular/compiler-plugin.ts
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ export function createCompilerPlugin(
             location: null,
             notes: [
               {
-                text: error instanceof Error ? error.stack ?? error.message : `${error}`,
+                text: error instanceof Error ? (error.stack ?? error.message) : `${error}`,
                 location: null,
               },
             ],
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ export function createCompilerPlugin(
             location: null,
             notes: [
               {
-                text: error instanceof Error ? error.stack ?? error.message : `${error}`,
+                text: error instanceof Error ? (error.stack ?? error.message) : `${error}`,
                 location: null,
               },
             ],
@@ -537,9 +537,12 @@ function createCompilerOptionsTransformer(
       compilerOptions.compilationMode = 'full';
     }
 
-    // Enable incremental compilation by default if caching is enabled
-    if (pluginOptions.sourceFileCache?.persistentCachePath) {
-      compilerOptions.incremental ??= true;
+    // Enable incremental compilation by default if caching is enabled and incremental is not explicitly disabled
+    if (
+      compilerOptions.incremental !== false &&
+      pluginOptions.sourceFileCache?.persistentCachePath
+    ) {
+      compilerOptions.incremental = true;
       // Set the build info file location to the configured cache directory
       compilerOptions.tsBuildInfoFile = path.join(
         pluginOptions.sourceFileCache?.persistentCachePath,