diff --git a/packager/blacklist.js b/packager/blacklist.js
index a2ba71673..af2e2879a 100644
--- a/packager/blacklist.js
+++ b/packager/blacklist.js
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ var platformBlacklists = {
   ios: [
     'node_modules/react-tools/src/browser/ui/React.js',
     'node_modules/react-tools/src/browser/eventPlugins/ResponderEventPlugin.js',
-    // 'node_modules/react-tools/src/vendor/core/ExecutionEnvironment.js',
+    'node_modules/react-tools/src/vendor/core/ExecutionEnvironment.js',
     '.web.js',
     '.android.js',
   ],
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ var platformBlacklists = {
     'node_modules/react-tools/src/browser/ui/React.js',
     'node_modules/react-tools/src/browser/eventPlugins/ResponderEventPlugin.js',
     'node_modules/react-tools/src/browser/ReactTextComponent.js',
-    // 'node_modules/react-tools/src/vendor/core/ExecutionEnvironment.js',
+    'node_modules/react-tools/src/vendor/core/ExecutionEnvironment.js',
     '.web.js',
     '.ios.js',
   ],
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/DependencyGraph/__tests__/DependencyGraph-test.js b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/DependencyGraph/__tests__/DependencyGraph-test.js
index 673d9c58a..471e60691 100644
--- a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/DependencyGraph/__tests__/DependencyGraph-test.js
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/DependencyGraph/__tests__/DependencyGraph-test.js
@@ -2353,7 +2353,8 @@ describe('DependencyGraph', function() {
           }
           callbacks.push(callback);
           return this;
-        }
+        },
+        isWatchman: () => Promise.resolve(false),
       };
     });
 
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/index.js b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/index.js
index 71290af44..fe755bcb6 100644
--- a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/index.js
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/index.js
@@ -1,21 +1,11 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const nodeCrawl = require('./node');
-//const watchmanCrawl = require('./watchman');
+const watchmanCrawl = require('./watchman');
 
 function crawl(roots, options) {
-  return nodeCrawl(roots, options);
-
-  // Although, in theory, watchman should be much faster;
-  // there is currently a bottleneck somewhere in the
-  // encoding/decoding that is causing it to be slower
-  // than node crawling. However, this should be fixed soon.
-  // https://github.com/facebook/watchman/issues/113
-  /*
   const {fileWatcher} = options;
   return fileWatcher.isWatchman().then(isWatchman => {
-
-    console.log(isWatchman);
     if (!isWatchman) {
       return false;
     }
@@ -30,7 +20,7 @@ function crawl(roots, options) {
     }
 
     return nodeCrawl(roots, options);
-  });*/
+  });
 }
 
 module.exports = crawl;
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/watchman.js b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/watchman.js
index d6479a513..1871e3ead 100644
--- a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/watchman.js
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/crawlers/watchman.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ function watchmanRecReadDir(roots, {ignore, fileWatcher, exts}) {
             }
           }
 
-          const cmd = Promise.promisify(watcher.client.command.bind(watcher.client));
+          const cmd = Promise.denodeify(watcher.client.command.bind(watcher.client));
           return cmd(['query', watchedRoot, {
             'suffix': exts,
             'expression': ['allof', ['type', 'f'], 'exists', dirExpr],
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js b/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js
index 46b4667e7..d9ed7f32f 100644
--- a/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ const EventEmitter  = require('events').EventEmitter;
 const sane = require('sane');
 const Promise = require('promise');
 const exec = require('child_process').exec;
+const _ = require('underscore');
 
 const MAX_WAIT_TIME = 25000;
 
+// TODO(amasad): can we use watchman version command instead?r
 const detectingWatcherClass = new Promise(function(resolve) {
   exec('which watchman', function(err, out) {
     if (err || out.length === 0) {
@@ -79,9 +81,11 @@ class FileWatcher extends EventEmitter {
 
   static createDummyWatcher() {
     const ev = new EventEmitter();
-    ev.end = function() {
-      return Promise.resolve();
-    };
+    _.extend(ev, {
+      isWatchman: () => Promise.resolve(false),
+      end: () => Promise.resolve(),
+    });
+
     return ev;
   }
 }