diff --git a/src/Components/WebAssembly/DevServer/src/Server/Startup.cs b/src/Components/WebAssembly/DevServer/src/Server/Startup.cs
index 5125c59a74af..dd5ef53cab2b 100644
--- a/src/Components/WebAssembly/DevServer/src/Server/Startup.cs
+++ b/src/Components/WebAssembly/DevServer/src/Server/Startup.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers;
 
 namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.DevServer.Server;
 
@@ -65,6 +66,14 @@ public static void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IConfiguration configurati
             {
                 OnPrepareResponse = fileContext =>
                 {
+                    // Avoid caching index.html during development.
+                    // When hot reload is enabled, a middleware injects a hot reload script into the response HTML.
+                    // We don't want the browser to bypass this injection by using a cached response that doesn't
+                    // contain the injected script. In the future, if script injection is removed in favor of a
+                    // different mechanism, we can delete this comment and the line below it.
+                    // See also: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/45213
+                    fileContext.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] = "no-store";
+
                     if (applyCopHeaders)
                     {
                         // Browser multi-threaded runtime requires cross-origin policy headers to enable SharedArrayBuffer.