diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f2cbd81..b4c1d35 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -165,6 +165,15 @@ If you want to overrides default attributes just add them like new attributes :
 
 Although it's recommended to keep the default `type="module"` attribute as ViteJS build scripts as ES6 modules.
 
+### Dev only assets
+
+If you only want to render an asset when `DJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODE` is `True`, then you
+can add `dev_only=True` to the `vite_asset` tag.
+
+```
+{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' dev_only=True %}
+```
+
 ## Vite Legacy Plugin
 
 If you want to consider legacy browsers that don't support ES6 modules loading
diff --git a/django_vite/templatetags/django_vite.py b/django_vite/templatetags/django_vite.py
index c923b5b..37f942f 100644
--- a/django_vite/templatetags/django_vite.py
+++ b/django_vite/templatetags/django_vite.py
@@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ def vite_hmr_client(**kwargs: Dict[str, str]) -> str:
 @mark_safe
 def vite_asset(
     path: str,
+    *,
+    dev_only: bool = False,
     **kwargs: Dict[str, str],
 ) -> str:
     """
@@ -502,6 +504,7 @@ def vite_asset(
 
     Arguments:
         path {str} -- Path to a Vite JS/TS asset to include.
+        dev_only {bool} -- If True, only includes the asset in development.
 
     Returns:
         str -- All tags to import this file in your HTML page.
@@ -521,6 +524,9 @@ def vite_asset(
 
     assert path is not None
 
+    if dev_only and not DJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODE:
+        return ""
+
     return DjangoViteAssetLoader.instance().generate_vite_asset(path, **kwargs)