diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 692b933..bc17580 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Fourth release candidate.
   subdirectories of each under those, and updating the `composer.json`
   autoloading directives accordingly. This change will allow new projects to
   implement a "modular" structure if desired, with a subdirectory per namespace.
+- [#41](https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive-skeleton/pull/41) adds
+  the composer script "serve", which fires up the built-in PHP webserver on port
+  8080; invoke using `composer serve`.
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 606c5eb..23de4e8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,5 +46,7 @@ After choosing and installing the packages you want, go to the
 `<project-path>` and start PHP's built-in web server to verify installation:
 
 ```bash
-$ php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 -t public/
+$ composer serve
 ```
+
+You can then browse to http://localhost:8080.
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e343629..3d49be9 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
         ],
         "cs": "phpcs",
         "cs-fix": "phpcbf",
+        "serve": "php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/",
         "test": "phpunit"
     }
 }