diff --git a/lib/server/find-strings-plugin.js b/lib/server/find-strings-plugin.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 05b93f1c7a..0000000000
--- a/lib/server/find-strings-plugin.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
- * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
- */
-
-/* find all strings with their descriptions that need to be translated and write
-   to i18n/en.json file */
-
-const fs = require("fs");
-
-module.exports = function findStringsPlugin(babel) {
-  const { types: t } = babel;
-
-  const translationsFile = process.cwd() + "/i18n/en.json";
-  let currentTranslations = JSON.parse(
-    fs.readFileSync(translationsFile, "utf8")
-  );
-
-  return {
-    visitor: {
-      JSXElement(path) {
-        if (path.node.openingElement.name.name !== "Translate") {
-          return;
-        }
-        const text = path.node.children[0].value.trim();
-        let description;
-        const attributes = path.node.openingElement.attributes;
-        for (let i = 0; i < attributes.length; i++) {
-          if (attributes[i].name.name === "desc") {
-            description = attributes[i].value.value;
-          }
-        }
-        if (!currentTranslations["pages-strings"]) {
-          currentTranslations["pages-strings"] = {};
-        }
-        currentTranslations["pages-strings"][text + "|" + description] = text;
-        fs.writeFileSync(translationsFile, JSON.stringify(currentTranslations));
-      }
-    }
-  };
-};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5e474a52c8..67d0a8cd27 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
     "examples": "./lib/copy-examples.js"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "babel-cli": "^6.24.1",
     "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
     "babel-register": "^6.24.1",
     "babel-traverse": "^6.25.0",