diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index 17d4420bb9..64a36c7ee1 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ test --incompatible_strict_action_env
 # Releases should always be stamped with version control info
 # This command assumes node on the path and is a workaround for
 # https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4802
-build:release --workspace_status_command="node ./tools/bazel_stamp_vars.js"
+build:release --workspace_status_command="yarn -s ng-dev release build-env-stamp"
 build:release --stamp
 
 ###############################
diff --git a/tools/bazel_stamp_vars.js b/tools/bazel_stamp_vars.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 7368c57bfb..0000000000
--- a/tools/bazel_stamp_vars.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
- * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
- */
-
-// tslint:disable:no-console
-// Generates the data used by the stamping feature in bazel.
-// See the section on stamping in docs / BAZEL.md
-// This script must be a NodeJS script in order to be cross-platform.
-// See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5958
-// Note: git operations, especially git status, take a long time inside mounted docker volumes
-// in Windows or OSX hosts (https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/188).
-const execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
-function _exec(str) {
-  return execSync(str).toString().trim();
-}
-
-function onError() {
-  console.error('Failed to execute:,', process.argv.join(' '));
-  console.error('');
-}
-
-// Setup crash handler
-process.on('uncaughtException', onError);
-
-const BUILD_SCM_HASH = _exec(`git rev-parse HEAD`);
-console.log(`BUILD_SCM_HASH ${BUILD_SCM_HASH}`);
-
-if (_exec(`git tag`) == '') {
-  console.error(`No git tags found, can't stamp the build.`);
-  console.error('Please fetch the tags first:');
-  console.error('       git fetch git@github.com:angular/angular.git --tags');
-}
-
-// Find out if there are any uncommitted local changes
-const LOCAL_CHANGES = _exec(`git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain`) != '';
-console.log(`BUILD_SCM_LOCAL_CHANGES ${LOCAL_CHANGES}`);
-
-// Only match the latest tag that is a version such as 6.0.0, 6.0.0-rc.5, etc...
-// This will ignore non-version tags which would break unit tests expecting a valid version
-// number in the package headers
-const BUILD_SCM_VERSION_RAW =
-    _exec(`git describe --match [0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]* --abbrev=7 --tags HEAD`);
-
-// Reformat `git describe` version string into a more semver-ish string
-//   From:   5.2.0-rc.0-57-g757f886
-//   To:     5.2.0-rc.0+57.sha-757f886
-//   Or:     5.2.0-rc.0+57.sha-757f886.with-local-changes
-const BUILD_SCM_VERSION = BUILD_SCM_VERSION_RAW.replace(/-([0-9]+)-g/, '+$1.sha-') +
-    (LOCAL_CHANGES ? '.with-local-changes' : '');
-console.log(`BUILD_SCM_VERSION ${BUILD_SCM_VERSION}`);