diff --git a/jest/setup.js b/jest/setup.js
index bc66b916171..9a5291a88f8 100644
--- a/jest/setup.js
+++ b/jest/setup.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ global.cancelAnimationFrame = function(id) {
   clearTimeout(id);
 };
 
-jest.mock('setupDevtools').mock('npmlog');
+jest.mock('setupDevtools');
 
 // there's a __mock__ for it.
 jest.setMock('ErrorUtils', require('ErrorUtils'));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 95e35c9d335..e864671cf1b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -162,20 +162,15 @@
     "@react-native-community/cli": "^1.1.0",
     "art": "^0.10.0",
     "base64-js": "^1.1.2",
-    "connect": "^3.6.5",
     "create-react-class": "^15.6.3",
-    "debug": "^2.2.0",
     "escape-string-regexp": "^1.0.5",
     "event-target-shim": "^1.0.5",
     "fbjs": "^1.0.0",
     "fbjs-scripts": "^1.0.0",
     "invariant": "^2.2.4",
-    "lodash": "^4.17.5",
     "metro-babel-register": "0.51.0",
     "metro-react-native-babel-transformer": "0.51.0",
-    "minimist": "^1.2.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
-    "npmlog": "^2.0.4",
     "nullthrows": "^1.1.0",
     "pretty-format": "24.0.0-alpha.6",
     "promise": "^7.1.1",
diff --git a/scripts/bump-oss-version.js b/scripts/bump-oss-version.js
index 9518de37388..8ee5d10c7ac 100755
--- a/scripts/bump-oss-version.js
+++ b/scripts/bump-oss-version.js
@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@
  */
 const fs = require('fs');
 const {cat, echo, exec, exit, sed} = require('shelljs');
+const yargs = require('yargs');
 
-const minimist = require('minimist');
-
-let argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
-  alias: {remote: 'r'},
-  default: {remote: 'origin'},
-});
+let argv = yargs.option('r', {
+  alias: 'remote',
+  default: 'origin',
+}).argv;
 
 // - check we are in release branch, e.g. 0.33-stable
 let branch = exec('git symbolic-ref --short HEAD', {