diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 1c1e68ce7..8baab32c1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ npm install --save "react-on-rails@../../react_on_rails"
 
 When you use a relative path, be sure to run the above `npm install` command whenever you change the node package for react-on-rails.
 
-Wihle we'd prefer to us `npm link`, we get errors. If you can figure out how to get `npm link react-on-rails` to work with this project, please file an issue or PR! This used to work with babel 5.
+While we'd prefer to use `npm link`, we get errors. If you can figure out how to get `npm link react-on-rails` to work with this project, please file an issue or PR! This used to work with babel 5.
 
 This is the error:
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ spec/dummy.
 # Optionally change default selenium_firefox driver
 export DRIVER=poltergeist
 cd <top level>
-npm dummy:spec
+npm run dummy:spec
 ```
 
 ### Run NPM JS tests
diff --git a/lib/generators/react_on_rails/templates/base/base/client/package.json.tt b/lib/generators/react_on_rails/templates/base/base/client/package.json.tt
index b785e9e58..60bda3b4f 100644
--- a/lib/generators/react_on_rails/templates/base/base/client/package.json.tt
+++ b/lib/generators/react_on_rails/templates/base/base/client/package.json.tt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
   },
   "cacheDirectories": ["node_modules", "client/node_modules"],
   "dependencies": {
-    "babel": "^6.5.2",
     "babel-cli": "^6.18.0",
     "babel-core": "^6.21.0",
     "babel-loader": "^6.2.10",
diff --git a/spec/dummy/client/package.json b/spec/dummy/client/package.json
index 289d9c581..3fa95b812 100644
--- a/spec/dummy/client/package.json
+++ b/spec/dummy/client/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
   "main": "js/app.js",
   "dependencies": {
     "autoprefixer": "^6.6.1",
-    "babel": "^6.5.2",
     "babel-cli": "^6.18.0",
     "babel-core": "^6.21.0",
     "babel-loader": "^6.2.10",