diff --git a/packages/nextjs/vercel/install-sentry-from-branch.sh b/packages/nextjs/vercel/install-sentry-from-branch.sh
index 1bb94b0cc833..84a0f59eb7c3 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/vercel/install-sentry-from-branch.sh
+++ b/packages/nextjs/vercel/install-sentry-from-branch.sh
@@ -27,13 +27,8 @@ yarn --prod false
 
 echo " "
 echo "BUILDING SDK"
-# Types are required for any type of build to succeed
-yarn build:types
-# We need to build es5 versions because `next.config.js` calls `require` on the SDK (to get `withSentryConfig`) and
-# therefore it looks for `cjs/index.js`
-yarn build:cjs
-# We need to build esm versions because that's what `next` actually uses when it builds the app
-yarn build:esm
+# build types, cjs, and esm
+yarn build:dev
 
 # Set all packages in the repo to point to their siblings as file dependencies. That way, when we install the local copy
 # of @sentry/nextjs, it'll pull the local copy of each of its @sentry/* dependents. This mimics what Lerna does with
@@ -53,7 +48,7 @@ PACKAGE_NAMES=$(ls $PACKAGES_DIR)
 for package in ${PACKAGE_NAMES[@]}; do
   # Within a given package.json file, search for each of the other packages in turn, and if found, make the replacement
   for package_dep in ${PACKAGE_NAMES[@]}; do
-    sed -Ei /"@sentry\/${package_dep}"/s/"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"/"file:${ESCAPED_PACKAGES_DIR}\/${package_dep}"/ ${PACKAGES_DIR}/${package}/package.json
+    sed -Ei /"@sentry\/${package_dep}"/s/"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-(alpha|beta)\.[0-9]+)?"/"file:${ESCAPED_PACKAGES_DIR}\/${package_dep}"/ ${PACKAGES_DIR}/${package}/package.json
   done
 done