diff --git a/detox/scripts/postinstall.sh b/detox/scripts/postinstall.sh
index e21c7007ea..f05bfc8668 100755
--- a/detox/scripts/postinstall.sh
+++ b/detox/scripts/postinstall.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
-if [ "$__DETOX_DEV" = true ]; then
-  echo "Running postinstall for detox dev mode, exiting"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
 if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then
   source "$(dirname ${0})/build_framework.ios.sh"
 fi
diff --git a/docs/Guide.Contributing.md b/docs/Guide.Contributing.md
index b0e505ebd1..b0fb7300b5 100644
--- a/docs/Guide.Contributing.md
+++ b/docs/Guide.Contributing.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ git submodule update --init --recursive
 ### Installing and linking internal projects
 
 ```sh
-scripts/bootstrap.sh
+lerna bootstrap
 ```
 
 ### Building
diff --git a/examples/demo-native-android/package.json b/examples/demo-native-android/package.json
index 0a88c9feaa..727d21318d 100644
--- a/examples/demo-native-android/package.json
+++ b/examples/demo-native-android/package.json
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
     "e2e": "mocha e2e --opts ./e2e/mocha.opts"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "mocha": "^3.2.0",
-    "detox": "^6.0.0"
+    "mocha": "^4.0.0",
+    "detox": "^7.0.0"
   },
   "detox": {}
 }
diff --git a/examples/demo-native-ios/package.json b/examples/demo-native-ios/package.json
index ce158ff78d..d5adecad7c 100644
--- a/examples/demo-native-ios/package.json
+++ b/examples/demo-native-ios/package.json
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	"version": "0.0.1",
 	"private": true,
 	"devDependencies": {
-		"mocha": "^3.2.0",
-		"detox": "^6.0.0"
+		"mocha": "^4.0.0",
+		"detox": "^7.0.0"
 	},
 	"detox": {
 		"specs": "e2e",
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap.sh b/scripts/bootstrap.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f5f73775e3..0000000000
--- a/scripts/bootstrap.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-# Detox package runs a postinstall script when installed as a dependency in order to compile Detox.framework (iOS).
-# In order to install it, the framework sources must be already packaged in Detox-ios-src.tbz. An issue arises when developing Detox,
-# since postinstall runs before prepublish, causing the compilation script to start running before the sources are available,
-# so we had to add a hack :( to the dev process, skipping postinstall and then manually triggering it.
-__DETOX_DEV=true lerna bootstrap
-npm run postinstall --prefix detox
diff --git a/scripts/ci.sh b/scripts/ci.sh
index af331cc966..c475b63ae9 100755
--- a/scripts/ci.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ if [ ! -z ${REACT_NATIVE_VERSION} ]; then
   node scripts/change_react_native_version.js "detox/test" ${REACT_NATIVE_VERSION}
 fi
 
-run_f "$(dirname "$0")/bootstrap.sh"
+run_f "lerna bootstrap"
 
 run_f "lerna run --ignore detox-demo* build"
 run_f "lerna run --ignore detox-demo* test"