diff --git a/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.csproj b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.csproj
index d916b589a0..d0127a1981 100644
--- a/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.csproj
+++ b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.csproj
@@ -21,4 +21,29 @@
     <Reference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore" />
     <Reference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.CommandLineUtils.Sources" PrivateAssets="All" />
   </ItemGroup>
+
+  <!--
+    Temporarily use hand-authored .nuspec file until we can use <FrameworkReference>
+    The hand-authored .nuspec file is to ensure it *doesn't* reference the shared
+    framework packages that aren't actually shipping as packages. We can remove this
+    once the nuspec generation accounts for <FrameworkReference>.
+  -->
+  <Target Name="PrepareNuSpecProperties" BeforeTargets="_IntermediatePack">
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <NuspecFile>Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.nuspec</NuspecFile>
+      <NuspecProperties>
+        outdir=$(OutDir);
+        componentsrootdir=..\..\..\;
+        blazorversion=$(PackageVersion);
+        aspnetcoreversion=$(ComponentsPackageVersion);
+        sharedfxversion=$(SharedFxVersion);
+        repositorycommit=$(RepositoryCommit);</NuspecProperties>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+    <!-- Also temporarily generate the runtimeconfig.json manually until we can use <FrameworkReference> -->
+    <Sdk_GenerateFileFromTemplate
+      TemplateFile="temporaryruntimeconfig.json"
+      Properties="$(NuspecProperties)"
+      OutputPath="$(OutDir)temporaryruntimeconfig.out.json">
+    </Sdk_GenerateFileFromTemplate>
+  </Target>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.nuspec b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.nuspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9453186874
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli.nuspec
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2013/05/nuspec.xsd">
+  <metadata>
+    <id>Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Cli</id>
+    <version>$blazorversion$</version>
+    <authors>Microsoft</authors>
+    <owners>Microsoft</owners>
+    <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
+    <licenseUrl>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/2.0.0/LICENSE.txt</licenseUrl>
+    <projectUrl>https://asp.net/</projectUrl>
+    <iconUrl>https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=288859</iconUrl>
+    <description>Development server for use when building Blazor applications.
+
+This package was built from the source code at https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/tree/$repositorycommit$</description>
+    <copyright>© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright>
+    <tags>aspnetcore components</tags>
+    <serviceable>true</serviceable>
+    <repository type="git" url="https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore" commit="$repositorycommit$" />
+    <dependencies>
+      <group targetFramework=".NETCoreApp3.0">
+        <dependency id="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Server" version="$blazorversion$" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
+        <dependency id="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Server" version="$aspnetcoreversion$" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
+        <dependency id="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.Extensions" version="$aspnetcoreversion$" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
+      </group>
+    </dependencies>
+  </metadata>
+  <files>
+    <file src="$outdir$temporaryruntimeconfig.out.json" target="lib\netcoreapp3.0\dotnet-blazor.runtimeconfig.json" />
+    <file src="$outdir$dotnet-blazor.dll" target="lib\netcoreapp3.0\dotnet-blazor.dll" />
+    <file src="$componentsrootdir$THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt" target=".\THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt" />
+  </files>
+</package>
diff --git a/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/temporaryruntimeconfig.json b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/temporaryruntimeconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab764021e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Components/Blazor/Cli/src/temporaryruntimeconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "runtimeOptions": {
+    "tfm": "netcoreapp3.0",
+    "framework": {
+      "name": "Microsoft.AspNetCore.App",
+      "version": "${sharedfxversion}"
+    }
+  }
+}