diff --git a/packages/vite/src/executors/dev-server/dev-server.impl.ts b/packages/vite/src/executors/dev-server/dev-server.impl.ts
index 4d32085ea70868..66f415624116dc 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/executors/dev-server/dev-server.impl.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/executors/dev-server/dev-server.impl.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ export default async function* viteDevServerExecutor(
     } as InlineConfig
   );
 
+  // TODO: (nicholas) clean up type
+  if (options['production']) {
+    console.warn('WARNING: serve is not ment to be run in production');
+  }
+
   const server = await createServer(serverConfig);
 
   const baseUrl = await runViteDevServer(server);