Android: Could not find any matches for com.wix:detox:+ as no versions of com.wix:detox are available

[Overtorment]

I had everything working with Detox (RN).
Then I decided to add --production to npm install, this is supposed to skip devDependencies (this is where detox dep resides).
After that, ./gradlew assembleRelease fails with

> Task :app:lintVitalRelease FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:lintVitalRelease'.
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':app:debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find any matches for com.wix:detox:+ as no versions of com.wix:detox are available.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - file:/home/overtorment/.m2/repository/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - file:/tmp/bw_prod/node_modules/react-native/android/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - file:/tmp/bw_prod/node_modules/jsc-android/dist/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - file:/tmp/bw_prod/node_modules/detox/Detox-android/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
       - https://jitpack.io/com/wix/detox/maven-metadata.xml
     Required by:
         project :app

I assume it tries to include detox from node_modules which doesn't exist because it was not installed by npm, and that's why it fails.

What's the recommended best practice here would be?

Quick googling showed that this should be used only as last resort:

lintOptions { 
    checkReleaseBuilds false
}

(build.gradle)

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