diff --git a/.ng-dev/release.ts b/.ng-dev/release.ts
index ccef1fa41625..ee06ef8b0ae8 100644
--- a/.ng-dev/release.ts
+++ b/.ng-dev/release.ts
@@ -1,26 +1,42 @@
 import {BuiltPackage, ReleaseConfig} from '@angular/dev-infra-private/release/config';
 import {ReleaseAction} from '@angular/dev-infra-private/release/publish/actions';
 import {SemVer} from 'semver';
-
-import {
-  assertValidFrameworkPeerDependency
-} from '../tools/release-checks/check-framework-peer-dependency';
-import {
-  assertValidUpdateMigrationCollections
-} from '../tools/release-checks/check-migration-collections';
 import {assertValidNpmPackageOutput} from '../tools/release-checks/npm-package-output';
+import {fork} from 'child_process';
+import {join} from 'path';
+import {FatalReleaseActionError} from '@angular/dev-infra-private/release/publish/actions-error';
 
 const actionProto = ReleaseAction.prototype as any;
 const _origStageFn = actionProto.stageVersionForBranchAndCreatePullRequest;
 const _origVerifyFn = actionProto._verifyPackageVersions;
 
+/** Runs the staging sanity release checks for the given new version. */
+async function runStagingReleaseChecks(newVersion: SemVer) {
+  return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+    // Note: We run the staging release checks in a new node process. This is necessary
+    // because before staging, the correct publish branch is checked out. If we'd
+    // directly call into the release checks, the `.ng-dev/release` config would be
+    // cached by NodeJS and release checks would potentially check for packages which
+    // no longer exist in the publish branch (or the other way around).
+    const releaseChecksProcess = fork(
+      join(__dirname, '../tools/release-checks/index.js'), [newVersion.format()]);
+
+    releaseChecksProcess.on('close', code => {
+      if (code !== 0) {
+        reject(new FatalReleaseActionError());
+      } else {
+        resolve();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+}
+
 // Patches the `@angular/dev-infra-private` release tool to perform sanity checks
 // before staging a release. This is temporary until the dev-infra team has implemented
 // a more generic solution to running sanity checks before releasing (potentially building
 // some of the checks we have in the components repository into the release tool).
 actionProto.stageVersionForBranchAndCreatePullRequest = async function(newVersion: SemVer) {
-  await assertValidFrameworkPeerDependency(newVersion);
-  await assertValidUpdateMigrationCollections(newVersion);
+  await runStagingReleaseChecks(newVersion);
 
   return await _origStageFn.apply(this, arguments);
 };
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7f2a13bb5e17..0c98ae19abe2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "postinstall": "node tools/postinstall/apply-patches.js && ngcc --properties module main --create-ivy-entry-points && node tools/postinstall/update-ngcc-main-fields.js",
-    "build": "ts-node --project scripts/tsconfig.json ./scripts/build-packages-dist.js",
+    "build": "ts-node --project scripts/tsconfig.json ./scripts/build-packages-dist.ts",
     "build-and-check-release-output": "ts-node --project scripts/tsconfig.json scripts/build-and-check-release-output.ts",
     "build-docs-content": "node ./scripts/build-docs-content.js",
     "dev-app": "ibazel run //src/dev-app:devserver",
diff --git a/tools/release-checks/index.js b/tools/release-checks/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03ee333ccde7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/release-checks/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+require('ts-node').register({
+  dir: __dirname,
+  transpileOnly: true,
+  compilerOptions: {module: 'commonjs'},
+})
+
+const {parse} = require('semver');
+const {assertValidFrameworkPeerDependency} = require('./check-framework-peer-dependency');
+const {assertValidUpdateMigrationCollections} = require('./check-migration-collections');
+
+async function main(newVersion) {
+  await assertValidFrameworkPeerDependency(newVersion);
+  await assertValidUpdateMigrationCollections(newVersion);
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  const newVersion = parse(process.argv[2]);
+
+  if (newVersion === null) {
+    throw Error('No proper version specified for release checks.');
+  }
+
+  main(newVersion).catch(e => {
+    console.error(e);
+    process.exit(1);
+  });
+}