diff --git a/desktop/pkg-lib/src/index.ts b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/index.ts
index 41282807c..6ffd2e0b2 100644
--- a/desktop/pkg-lib/src/index.ts
+++ b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/index.ts
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 export {default as runBuild} from './runBuild';
 export {default as getWatchFolders} from './getWatchFolders';
 export {default as computePackageChecksum} from './computePackageChecksum';
+export {default as stripSourceMapComment} from './stripSourceMap';
diff --git a/desktop/pkg-lib/src/runBuild.ts b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/runBuild.ts
index ff47871ce..53baeaf1d 100644
--- a/desktop/pkg-lib/src/runBuild.ts
+++ b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/runBuild.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import path from 'path';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import {getInstalledPluginDetails} from 'flipper-plugin-lib';
 import {FileStore} from 'metro-cache';
+import stripSourceMapComment from './stripSourceMap';
 import os from 'os';
 
 let metroDir: string | undefined;
@@ -37,18 +38,6 @@ type Options = {
   sourceMapPath?: string | undefined;
 };
 
-// Metro erroneously adds source map comments to the bottom of the file
-// which break checksums on CI environments where paths change and are generally
-// undesired. We manually strip the comment here and write the file back.
-async function stripSourceMapComment(out: string) {
-  const lines = (await fs.readFile(out, 'utf-8')).split(os.EOL);
-  const lastLine = lines[lines.length - 1];
-  if (lastLine.startsWith('//# sourceMappingURL=')) {
-    console.log(`Updating ${out} to remove sourceMapURL= comment.`);
-    await fs.writeFile(out, lines.slice(0, lines.length - 1).join(os.EOL));
-  }
-}
-
 export default async function bundlePlugin(
   pluginDir: string,
   dev: boolean,
diff --git a/desktop/pkg-lib/src/stripSourceMap.ts b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/stripSourceMap.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ff8d9c2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/desktop/pkg-lib/src/stripSourceMap.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @format
+ */
+
+import os from 'os';
+import fs from 'fs-extra';
+
+// Metro erroneously adds source map comments to the bottom of the file
+// which break checksums on CI environments where paths change and are generally
+// undesired. We manually strip the comment here and write the file back.
+export default async function stripSourceMapComment(out: string) {
+  const lines = (await fs.readFile(out, 'utf-8')).split(os.EOL);
+  const lastLine = lines[lines.length - 1];
+  if (lastLine.startsWith('//# sourceMappingURL=')) {
+    console.log(`Updating ${out} to remove sourceMapURL= comment.`);
+    await fs.writeFile(out, lines.slice(0, lines.length - 1).join(os.EOL));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/desktop/scripts/build-utils.ts b/desktop/scripts/build-utils.ts
index 686b0ff1a..28a3fd43e 100644
--- a/desktop/scripts/build-utils.ts
+++ b/desktop/scripts/build-utils.ts
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@
 
 import Metro from 'metro';
 import tmp from 'tmp';
-import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import {spawn} from 'promisify-child-process';
-import {getWatchFolders, runBuild} from 'flipper-pkg-lib';
+import {
+  getWatchFolders,
+  runBuild,
+  stripSourceMapComment,
+} from 'flipper-pkg-lib';
 import getAppWatchFolders from './get-app-watch-folders';
 import {
   getSourcePlugins,
@@ -161,16 +164,6 @@ async function buildDefaultPlugins(defaultPlugins: InstalledPluginDetails[]) {
   }
 }
 
-// TODO: Share this with the runBuild util in pkg-lib.
-async function stripSourceMapComment(out: string) {
-  const lines = (await fs.readFile(out, 'utf-8')).split(os.EOL);
-  const lastLine = lines[lines.length - 1];
-  if (lastLine.startsWith('//# sourceMappingURL=')) {
-    console.log(`Updating ${out} to remove sourceMapURL= comment.`);
-    await fs.writeFile(out, lines.slice(0, lines.length - 1).join(os.EOL));
-  }
-}
-
 const minifierConfig = {
   minifierPath: require.resolve('metro-minify-terser'),
   minifierConfig: {