diff --git a/packages/react/babel.ts b/packages/react/babel.ts
index 28b0fd3e08732..d943a436b710f 100644
--- a/packages/react/babel.ts
+++ b/packages/react/babel.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 
 interface NxReactBabelOptions {
+  development?: boolean;
   runtime?: string;
   importSource?: string;
   useBuiltIns?: boolean | string;
@@ -51,10 +52,16 @@ module.exports = function (api: any, options: NxReactBabelOptions) {
   };
 };
 
-function getReactPresetOptions({ presetOptions, env }) {
+function getReactPresetOptions({
+  presetOptions,
+  env,
+}: {
+  env: string;
+  presetOptions: NxReactBabelOptions;
+}) {
   const reactPresetOptions: Record<string, string | boolean> = {
     runtime: presetOptions.runtime ?? 'automatic',
-    development: env !== 'production',
+    development: presetOptions.development ?? env !== 'production',
   };
 
   // JSX spread is transformed into object spread in `@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx`
diff --git a/packages/web/src/executors/file-server/file-server.impl.ts b/packages/web/src/executors/file-server/file-server.impl.ts
index f09afa45e1c60..213e98aec18bc 100644
--- a/packages/web/src/executors/file-server/file-server.impl.ts
+++ b/packages/web/src/executors/file-server/file-server.impl.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ function getBuildTargetOutputPath(options: Schema, context: ExecutorContext) {
 
   let buildOptions;
   try {
-    const target = parseTargetString(options.buildTarget, context.projectGraph);
+    const target = parseTargetString(options.buildTarget, context);
     buildOptions = readTargetOptions(target, context);
   } catch (e) {
     throw new Error(`Invalid buildTarget: ${options.buildTarget}`);