diff --git a/packages/web-components/package.json b/packages/web-components/package.json
index 74b452e09d7..b500cda350f 100644
--- a/packages/web-components/package.json
+++ b/packages/web-components/package.json
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
     "doctoc": "doctoc --title '## Table of contents' docs && doctoc --title '## Table of contents' README.md",
     "postinstall": "carbon-telemetry collect --install",
     "start": "cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider yarn storybook",
+    "start-dev": "./update-scss-paths.sh & yarn start",
     "storybook": "NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider start-storybook -p 9000",
     "storybook:react": "node --openssl-legacy-provider node_modules/@storybook/react/bin/index.js -p 9002 -c .storybook/react",
     "test": "yarn test:unit && yarn test:integration",
diff --git a/packages/web-components/update-scss-paths.sh b/packages/web-components/update-scss-paths.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..f579c995b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/web-components/update-scss-paths.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+declare -a component_names
+
+if ! command -v fswatch &>/dev/null; then
+  echo "fswatch required (https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch)"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Function to search and replace the string with proper escaping
+search_and_replace_string() {
+  directory="$1"
+  search_string="$2"
+  replace_string="$3"
+  
+  # search for scss files under directory
+  find "$directory" -type f -name "*.scss" ! -path "*/__stories__/*" | while read -r scss_file; do
+    # search and replace the string in the file
+    sed -i "" "s#$search_string#$replace_string#g" "$scss_file"
+		echo "Replaced imports in $scss_file"
+  done
+}
+
+# monitor for file changes under the `styles` directory
+fswatch -0 ../styles/ | while read -d "" changed_file
+do
+  component=$(basename "$(dirname "$changed_file")")
+	target_directory="src/components/$component"
+
+	if [[ ! " ${component_names[@]} " =~ " ${component} " ]]; then
+    component_names+=("$component")
+		search_and_replace_string "$target_directory" "@carbon/ibmdotcom-styles/scss/components" "../../../../styles/scss/components"
+	fi
+	
+done
+
+cleanup() {
+	echo "Reverting styles imports"
+	search_and_replace_string "src/components" "../../../../styles/scss/components" "@carbon/ibmdotcom-styles/scss/components"
+}
+
+trap cleanup EXIT