diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 68879e5..65d9bec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ The project is maintained by [React Training](https://reacttraining.com) with sp
 
 The website was built using [create-react-app](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app). This is the app you see when you run `yarn start`. However, none of the package links will work.
 
-To start the backend, use `yarn run serve`. This will start the backend so the website (which is really just a static HTML file) can serve as a proxy for package requests.
+To start the backend, use `yarn run server`. This will start the backend so the website (which is really just a static HTML file) can serve as a proxy for package requests.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bccb49d..5c5985b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "start": "node scripts/start.js",
     "build": "node scripts/build.js",
     "heroku-postbuild": "node scripts/build.js",
-    "serve": "heroku local -f Procfile.local -p 3001",
+    "server": "heroku local -f Procfile.local -p 3001",
     "test": "node scripts/test.js --env=jsdom"
   },
   "dependencies": {