diff --git a/apps/preview/app/src/components/sidebar.tsx b/apps/preview/app/src/components/sidebar.tsx
index ca2a38b9..b500a221 100644
--- a/apps/preview/app/src/components/sidebar.tsx
+++ b/apps/preview/app/src/components/sidebar.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { Link, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { useAppStore } from '../composables/useAppStore';
 import type { TemplatePart } from '../lib/types';
 
-import { Logo } from './Logo';
+import { Logo } from './logo';
 import { Separator } from './ui/Separator';
 
 interface DirectoryTreeProps {
diff --git a/apps/preview/app/src/layouts/Shell.tsx b/apps/preview/app/src/layouts/Shell.tsx
index 95f91406..585bc3ca 100644
--- a/apps/preview/app/src/layouts/Shell.tsx
+++ b/apps/preview/app/src/layouts/Shell.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Outlet } from 'react-router-dom';
 
-import { Header, Sidebar } from '../components/Sidebar';
+import { Header, Sidebar } from '../components/sidebar';
 
 export const Shell = () => (
   <>
diff --git a/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/commands/preview.ts b/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/commands/preview.ts
index 1655ddea..8a6c61fb 100644
--- a/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/commands/preview.ts
+++ b/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/commands/preview.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-use-before-define */
+import { AssertionError } from 'node:assert';
 import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { mkdir, rmdir } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import os from 'node:os';
+import { isAbsolute, join, resolve, win32 } from 'node:path';
 
 import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
 import chalk from 'chalk-template';
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@ import { parse as assert } from 'valibot';
 import { type InlineConfig, createServer, build as viteBuild } from 'vite';
 
 import { log } from '../../log.js';
-import { buildForPreview, writePreviewDataFiles } from '../helpers.js';
+import { buildForPreview, originalCwd, writePreviewDataFiles } from '../helpers.js';
 import { reloadPlugin } from '../vite-reload.js';
 import { staticPlugin } from '../vite-static.js';
 import { watch } from '../watcher.js';
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ Starts the preview server for a directory of email templates
   $ email preview <template dir path> [...options]
 
 {underline Options}
-  --build-path  An absolute path. When set, builds the preview as a deployable app and saves to disk
+  --build-path  When set, builds the preview as a deployable app and saves to disk
   --exclude     A micromatch glob pattern that specifies files to exclude from the preview
   --host        Allow thew preview server to listen on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
   --no-open     Do not open a browser tab when the preview server starts
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ Starts the preview server for a directory of email templates
 
 {underline Examples}
   $ email preview ./src/templates --port 55420
+  $ email preview ./src/templates --build-path ./.deploy
   $ email preview ./src/templates --build-path /tmp/email-preview
 `;
 
@@ -55,19 +58,19 @@ const buildDeployable = async ({ argv, targetPath }: PreviewCommonParams) => {
     );
   }
 
-  const { basePath = './', buildPath } = argv;
+  const { basePath = './', buildPath = './.deploy' } = argv;
   const common = { argv, targetPath };
   await prepareBuild(common);
   const config = await getConfig(common);
+  const outDir = isAbsolute(buildPath) ? buildPath : resolve(join(originalCwd, buildPath));
 
   await viteBuild({
     ...config,
     base: basePath,
     build: {
       minify: false,
-      outDir: buildPath,
+      outDir,
       rollupOptions: {
-        external: ['react/jsx-runtime'],
         output: {
           manualChunks: {}
         }
@@ -94,6 +97,22 @@ const getConfig = async ({ argv, targetPath }: PreviewCommonParams) => {
 
   log.debug(`Vite Root: ${root}`);
 
+  // On Windows, Vite's import.meta.glob cannot cross drive letters. If the
+  // preview app root and the temporary build directory are on different
+  // drives (e.g., D: vs C:), fail fast with a helpful error.
+  if (os.platform() === 'win32') {
+    const rootDrive = getDriveLetter(root);
+    const buildDrive = getDriveLetter(buildPath);
+    if (rootDrive && buildDrive && rootDrive !== buildDrive) {
+      log.error(
+        `jsx-email preview cannot run on Windows when the application root directory and the system temporary directory are on different drive letters. Please consider using WSL`
+      );
+      throw new AssertionError({
+        message: `Temporary directory drive letter different than root directory drive letter`
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
   newline();
   log.info(chalk`{blue Starting build...}`);
 
@@ -127,6 +146,11 @@ const getConfig = async ({ argv, targetPath }: PreviewCommonParams) => {
   return config;
 };
 
+const getDriveLetter = (path: string) => {
+  if (os.platform() !== 'win32') return null;
+  return win32.parse(path).root.slice(0, 2).toUpperCase();
+};
+
 const prepareBuild = async ({ targetPath, argv }: PreviewCommonParams) => {
   const buildPath = await getTempPath('preview');
   const { exclude } = argv;
diff --git a/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/vite-static.ts b/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/vite-static.ts
index bb0ff288..81bd0c46 100644
--- a/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/vite-static.ts
+++ b/packages/jsx-email/src/cli/vite-static.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { extname } from 'node:path';
 
 import { globby } from 'globby';
 import mime from 'mime-types';
-import type { PluginOption, ViteDevServer } from 'vite';
+import { type PluginOption, type ViteDevServer, normalizePath } from 'vite';
 
 interface ViteStaticOptions {
   paths: string[];
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ interface MiddlwareParams {
 const middleware = async (params: MiddlwareParams) => {
   const { options, server } = params;
   const { paths } = options;
-  const files = await globby(paths);
+  const files = await globby(paths.map((path) => normalizePath(path)));
 
   return () => {
     server.middlewares.use(async (req, res, next) => {
diff --git a/test/cli/preview-build-path.test.ts b/test/cli/preview-build-path.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c68390a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cli/preview-build-path.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import { access, readFile, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import os from 'node:os';
+import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+
+import { execa } from 'execa';
+
+describe('cli: preview --build-path', async () => {
+  const outRelational = './.test/build-path';
+  const outAbsolute = resolve(__dirname, outRelational);
+  const templatePath = './.test/.deploy/emails';
+  const isWindows = os.platform() === 'win32';
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    await rm(outAbsolute, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await rm(outAbsolute, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  });
+
+  if (!isWindows) {
+    test('relative build path writes to an absolute path derived from the original cwd', async () => {
+      await execa({ cwd: __dirname, shell: true })`email create BatmanEmail --out ${templatePath} `;
+      const { stdout } = await execa({
+        cwd: __dirname,
+        shell: true
+      })`email preview ${templatePath} --build-path ${outRelational}`;
+
+      console.log(stdout);
+
+      await access(join(outAbsolute, 'index.html'));
+
+      const html = await readFile(join(outAbsolute, 'index.html'), 'utf8');
+      expect(html).toContain('<div id="root"></div>');
+    }, 60e3);
+  }
+
+  if (isWindows) {
+    test('errors when Vite root and temp build path are on different drives (Windows)', async () => {
+      await execa({ cwd: __dirname, shell: true })`email create BatmanEmail --out ${templatePath} `;
+      await expect(
+        execa({
+          cwd: __dirname,
+          shell: true
+        })`email preview ${templatePath} --build-path ${outRelational}`
+      ).rejects.toThrow(
+        /Temporary directory drive letter different than root directory drive letter/
+      );
+    }, 60e3);
+  }
+});